Final by default?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/12/14, 8:35 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 13 March 2014 10:15, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com
> <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/12/2014 5:02 PM, Chris Williams wrote:
>
>         As someone who would like to be able to use D as a language,
>         professionally,
>         it's more important to me that D gain future clients than that
>         it maintains the
>         ones that it has. Even more important is that it does both of
>         those things.
>
>
>     The D1 -> D2 transition very nearly destroyed D by sacrificing all
>     the momentum it had.
>
>
> To draw that as a comparison to the issue on topic is one of the biggest
> exaggerations I've seen in a while, and you're not usually prone to that
> sort of thing.

Actually a lot of measurements (post statistics, downloads) and plenty 
of evidence (D-related posts on reddit) support that hypothesis. The 
transition was a shock of much higher magnitude than both Walter and I 
anticipated.

Andrei