Thoughts on Backward Compatibility

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Friday, 16 February 2024 at 04:38:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Built-in AA's are one of my major reasons for choosing D, and 
> seeing it languish for years with elementary features like 
> static initialization not fixed is quite disheartening.  Worse 
> when it feels like D wants to move to newer pastures when its 
> current features are still half-done and has problematic corner 
> cases.  I.e., what I like about D is stagnating, while new 
> features that I have little interest in are being pushed on me.

Static aa initialization is in the language now.

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.106.0.html#dmd.static-assoc-array

-Steve