Laser-D announcement

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 17:22:07 UTC, user1234 wrote:
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> That looks like surface removal. For example with 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/5ede0e9cf8775f366b3662d71989eea50c818e74, which aimed at removing UDAs, you just change the parser. The matching ast node declaration still exists. The matching semantics as well. Once consequence is that coverage of the compiler sources will get lower.
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> Sorry but to me that does not look like serious work.
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Hello, this is deliberate to allow easy merge of upstream. If the 
front-end changes drastically then merging any upstream changes 
will be very difficult.

So the strategy for now is to just disable features without 
changing AST and all.