This is why I don't use D.

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:18:24AM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> 3rd party libraries are usually the real problem if there is one. They
> need to be maintained, and if something happens that breaks them from
> one release to another, that can prevent you from upgrading until it's
> fixed - which may or may not be quick even if they're maintained. And
> if they're not maintained, well, then that's a serious problem. Now,
> that would be a big problem in pretty much any language, but the
> greater rate of change in D does make it worse than it would be in
> languages that change at a much more glacial pace.
[...]

And that is why I think we should implement my idea of putting *all* dub
packages on code.dlang.org into our CI infrastructure, and log all
successes / failures to a database that can then be used to display the
range of version(s) of compilers that successfully built each package on
code.dlang.org. Then people can quickly see, at a glance, whether the
package still works with the version of the compiler that they're using
(usually the most recent release, but not always, so this information
can be super useful in making decisions).


T

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