Why is D unpopular, redux.

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue May 24 17:55:11 UTC 2022


On 5/23/2022 6:46 AM, FeepingCreature wrote:
> IMO, fear of breaking things is for projects who think they already have the 
> most users that they will ever have. If you anticipate more people using D in 
> the future, you should not let the complaints of current users cause pain for 
> future users.

Fixes for outright bugs that wind up breaking peoples' code is an unfortunate 
cost, but one we'll just have to bear.


> At any rate, my personal oft-stated opinion is of course that the rate of change 
> is too small. (Though I can't complain too loudly, since I've not exactly been 
> making a lot of pull requests lately...)

Everyone has their own must-have favorite enhancement request. Unfortunately, 
they're all different!


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