Future of D 2.x as stable/bug fix, and what's next for D 3.x

[Paul Backus]

On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 14:42:04 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 05:28:06 UTC, Ali wrote:
>>
>> Other than that, I think the biggest challenges are making 
>> sure all features fit and work together nicely and marketing, 
>> making D more popular grow the community etc ...
>
> I think developers want stability and not a language that 
> chases for the next compiler technology trend as soon as it 
> pops up.

If it were only a question of figuring out "what developers want" 
and then implementing it, language design would be easy. :)

The messy truth is that different developers want different 
things, and no group of developers ever agrees completely on what 
they do or don't want. I mean, think about how much people argue 
about tabs vs. spaces, or vim vs. emacs. Do you really think 
these same people are going to come to a clear consensus about 
stability vs. innovation?