Why is D unpopular, redux.

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 09:08:10 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> I believe, from what he said in other thread, that in his 
> opinion D should bundle changes that require tooling updates so 
> that they happen only once per every few years.
>
> I personally don't agree with that. I fear that having to wait 
> for the biannual or so release day to have any significant 
> language improvements released would frustate contributors. And 
> it would drastically slow the feedback loop, with regards to 
> experience with the new features.

I think maybe the better answer is, make tooling part of D's CI 
pipelines.

We have the project tester to make sure we don't break D 
projects, and it does a pretty good job. If we care about 
tooling, it stands to reason that we should have a tooling tester 
too.