Generality creep

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/28/19 10:03 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 18:30:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/28/19 2:12 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> We've been worrying too much about changing things.
>>
>> On any given issue, even those that widely agreed to be clowny, two 
>> factions emerge. One advocates change and the other advocates against 
>> code breakage. Interestingly the factions are different depending on 
>> the issue, i.e. a given person may be in favor of change in one matter 
>> and in favor of backwards compatibility in another. At any rate, the 
>> result is years-long stalemate and trench warfare on the slightest 
>> problems.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> This is a complete 180 from what you were saying a year ago. What happened?

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