Is it time for D 3.0?

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 01:42 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 3/27/2020 10:22 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Clearly D
> > remaining at v2 for ever more would, I feel,  be a Very Bad Idea™
> > since
> > it advertises no changes to the language, i.e. a language with a
> > stalled evolution.
> 
> If this happens it still seems like a marketing failure. After all,
> C++ gets a 
> year appended and yet has large changes.

It is always a delicate balance of keeping a language vibrant and alive
in the minds of those *not* already committed to it, and seeming a
niche language dead to the mainstream.

Switching D to a proper semantic versioning system would, in my view,
help keep D in the former category, and out of the latter one. If we
get to D 2.999, I would suggest D has moved into to latter category.

Yes I know Torvalds did the major version hack on Linux simply to avoid
seeming stuck and stalled, not for any actual technical reasons, but it
worked.

-- 
Russel.
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