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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 06:29:01PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's been Walter & Andrei's motto for the last X number of years
now.  Thing is, though, that at *some* point you just have to move on.
The only unchanging language is a dead one; this applies both in natural
language and programming languages.

That's why it was so refreshing to hear Andrei propose std.v2 recently.
That's a good first step from the past few years' worth of "we dare not
fix X because it might break code".  I hope there will eventually be a
D3.  And a D4.


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