Windows experience is atrocious

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 20:28:21 UTC 2023


On Wednesday, 26 July 2023 at 19:54:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/25/2023 9:51 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> The only solution, to avoid having to do a massive rewrite of 
>> 90% of D's
>> entire ecosystem every time there's a language change, is to 
>> have the
>> compiler understand old code and compile old code in the way 
>> it was
>> supposed to be compiled years ago.
>
> As much as we can, that's the way we're going to do it moving 
> forward.
>
> In addition, we're considering some sort of annotation in the 
> source code saying which "edition" of D the module conforms to.

Not sure if you're familiar with Circle, but it looks like that's 
what they are trying to do.

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/new-circle/README.md#versioning-with-feature-directives

Started watching this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fxeNqSK2k


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