Who favors the current D1 situation?

[Bill Baxter]

Jesse Phillips wrote:

> I'm with Jason and Gregor on this one. Would it be nice to have these 
> changes, yes, but I don't think that is the way to look at it. Even if D3 
> is completely compatibly with all D2 code, I wouldn't want it be in the 
> D2 tree. 
> 
> Think about it, you don't get all the Java 7 stuff in Java 6, just 
> because you don't see it to want it. D2 is going to introduce a lot of 
> breaking in old code, and headaches with const that many don't want. And 
> I believe this is really where you're coming from? You like the lack of 
> const, but want the other stuff? (not saying there is anything wrong with 
> it. I'm kinda frightened to switch, eager, but frightened)

Maybe a better analogy is with Python 3K.  It's a major release with 
some new breaking additions, and I seem to recall they're planning on 
having Python 2.x releases that incorporate backported features from 
Python 3K.  Probably someone here is more up to date on that situation 
than me.

Anyway I think an analogy with Java -- backed by a behemoth company, now 
on the 7th major release, with millions of users -- is not really apt. 
D can be and is more agile than that.

--bb