DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[jxel]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 05:54:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 03:35:13 UTC, jxel wrote:
>
>> one expects these things to change. What seems like common 
>> sense means nothing to someone stubborn and blinded by pride.
>
> There are historical reasons why Optlink is still around and 
> they have nothing to do with stubbornness or pride. Please make 
> your points without going ad hominem.

Being around for backwards compatibility and STILL BEING USED IN 
RELEASES are two very different things. Historical is the only 
thing that should describe Optlink. With all the breaking changes 
that are already happening, one can't really argue keeping it to 
maintain backwards compatibility either.

Anyways it seems we are one step closer to that, if the PR 
doesn't get reversed before release.