Feedback for this editorial cartoon

[norm]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 at 00:15:55 UTC, James Lu wrote:
> On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 05:54:20 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>> And those obscure scenarios are usually reductions of more 
>> complex but individually plausible projects. Of course it 
>> looks obscure with the business case filed off.
>> [...]
>
> I imagine 'we need to urgently ship this feature to unblock 
> another team, but compiler bugs stop us' might be a common 
> scenario too.

I'm sceptical, have you honestly been in this situation yourself?

 From my experience using D in production we have never had a 
compiler bug that blocked our work. We upgrade the compiler every 
6 months. The last bug encountered that meant we could not 
upgrade was in 2015 -- can't remember or be bothered to check the 
exact version. It did not block us because we always test the new 
compiler before pulling the switch, as we do for our C++ and 
Python code as well.

Cheers,
Norm