D Language Foundation May 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Timon Gehr]

On 8/31/24 17:41, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 8/30/24 22:36, Dukc wrote:
>>
>>  > He said that going forward, accepting a bad DIP would be less 
>> consequential than it had been in the past once we had editions. In 
>> the worst case, we'd have one thing more to maintain in an 
>> intermediate edition before it was fixed. Maybe that was a calculation 
>> we could take into consideration. Átila said that was a good point.
>>
>> You should be at least as worried about the damage to contributor 
>> morale on a bad decision as about the damage to the language. Editions 
>> do good job limiting the latter but not the former. If you accept that 
>> you can see why this attitude is unnerving.
> 
> Rejecting a DIP can be one of those bad decisions.
> 
> Anyway, obviously I prefer good decisions over bad decisions,

but language development is an incremental process and it helps if 
progress does not have to be fully monotone.

(Accidentally hit send.)