Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 18:22:04 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 15:58:54 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 15:49:48 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's time for D3.
>>>
>>> - Paolo
>>
>> The first step will be to stop saying D2 almost killed the 
>> language. I was not a user of the language at that time, but 
>> my reading is that the transition was a massive screwup. If 
>> the language doesn't evolve it will die.
>
> You mean D1? I hope we're not there already with D2!

I was referring to the D1 -> D2 transition. It has been claimed 
by Walter that it nearly killed the language so he doesn't want 
D2 -> D3.