State of D 2018 Survey

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On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 00:39:08 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 21:49:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>>
>> That being said, I think that it's a given that we need to 
>> make breaking changes at least occasionally. The question is 
>> more how big they can be and how we go about it. Some changes 
>> would clearly be far too large to be worth it, whereas others 
>> clearly pay for themselves. The harder question is the stuff 
>> in between.
>>
>> ...
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Personally. I think the D1..D2 transistion was great idea.
>
> I think D2..D3 should follow the same principle.

D1 -> D2 nearly killed D (can't remember which, but it was either 
Walter or Andrei that have said this on multiple occasions). A D2 
-> D3 transition might generate a lot of publicity if done very 
carefully, but more than likely it would just put the nails in 
the coffin for good and destroy all the momentum D has built up 
over the past 3 years (I feel like 2015 was a big turning point 
where D finally got back on peoples' radars).