Please be more careful when changing the language behavior

[mw]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 07:56:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/2/2020 9:21 PM, mw wrote:
>> In my view, D2 has already been feature rich enough for people 
>> to do their work. What they want most is compiler stability, 
>> not any more new language features. By freezing D2, they will 
>> have a more stable platform to get their work done without 
>> worrying about breakage. And for you, it will buy you more 
>> time, e.g. a few years, to design carefully the next major 
>> features / fixes you want introduce in D3.
>
> We simply don't have the resources to support a fork of the 
> language.

I won't call that a fork: I mean freeze D2 into maintenance mode: 
just bug fix, no new features.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd

shows: 198 contributors

let them help you with the D2 maintenance, so you can concentrate 
on D3.