Things that keep D from evolving?

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 16:33:09 UTC, NX wrote:
>
> I see... By any chance, can we solve this issue with GC managed 
> pointers?

Maybe we could.  But it's never going to happen.  Even if Walter 
weren't fundamentally opposed to multiple pointer types in D, it 
wouldn't happen.

You asked about things that prevent improvement, right?  Here's 
the big one, and a major point of friction in the community: 
Walter and Andrei refuse to break existing code in pursuit of 
changes that substantially improve the language.  (Never mind 
that code tends to break anyway.)

-Wyatt