What's wrong with stability, LTS, and not fixing bugs for "compatibility".

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 10:37:22 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> "If something is painful, do it more often"; this aphorism is 
> driven by the experience that doing it less often makes it 
> *more* painful. We risk ending up in the D1 (Python 2, Perl 5) 
> case where people don't update at all.

One idea could be, every one or two DMDFE releases, take one 
-preview flag and make it the default. Else the "ideal" language 
will grow further apart the language as used in the field. It is 
a sort of debt.

In the times of package manager, all you have to do when your 
code breaks is issue a minor tag, and dub update your 
dependencies. Breaking code isn't _that_ bad in that respect.

_At the same time_, I will dread the day where builtin complexes 
are removed, in a year where a particular trendy OS vendor is 
giving us months of work just to make working software continue 
running. Churn is _also_ annoying for industrial programmers.