Does D have too many features?

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/30/2012 11:28 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
>
>> The first thing to emphasize is that NONE of this will happen for D2.
>> The emphasis on D2 is fixing implementation and toolchain issues.
>> Breaking existing code is off the table unless we are pretty much
>> forced to in order to fix some other more important issue.
>
> But you need to keep into account that D2 is still a not widely used
> language. So deprecating some things now will cause far less troubles
> than doing it in D3 some years from now.

D2 -> D3 will be full of breaking changes anyway. Otherwise there is no 
reason to add another major language version.