The forked elephant in the room

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 22:36:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/18/2024 3:14 AM, DrDread wrote:
>> and this is also a problem. you leave bad features in the 
>> language that turned out to not work proberly, instead of just 
>> deprecating them.
>> people don't mind breaking code as much as you think, as long 
>> as it doesn't silently break.
> We recently has a long, acrimonious thread with people 
> complaining that D would break their existing code, and not 
> silently.

My understanding is that you now have a plan in place to change 
the language without breaking old code. Hopefully it works, 
because it will be one of the most important changes in the time 
I've used D.