D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

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On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 13:38:20 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
>
> I wish I was exaggerating, but __every__ new DMD version breaks 
> some of my code, to a smaller or bigger extent. It can be 
> either my own code, or dependency code, but I started drowning 
> in deprecation messages or outright breakage. It's nearly 
> impossible to develop any reasonable 3rdparty in those 
> conditions. I'm tired of fixing things that weren't broken. And 
> I can't even imagine having to support multiple branches of 
> code because of those deprecations. But I probably should, as, 
> periodically, I get issues that dlangui can't compile with some 
> outdated dmd version. It's just insane!
>
> Recently, some of the changes resulted in direct API changes. 
> This is unacceptable, as it, basically, forces people to update 
> major versions and split the codebase between "before" and 
> "after". Also forcing them to support two version of the same 
> thing.

Thank you for sharing this and this is a valid concern indeed. 
Unfortunately D is run as a hobbyist project for langauage geeks 
with little concern for the professional environment. It is 
nothing wrong with language geeks having a project but it doesn't 
mix well with projects that require stable language+stdlib. I 
repeat over and over again, we need to start with D3 so that 
language geeks can have a platform without interfering with D2. 
D2 should be put in maintenance mode now and the language should 
be considered to be finished.