Final by default?

[Manu]

On 13 March 2014 14:52, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>wrote:

> 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.


You're seriously comparing a deprecation warning telling you to write
'virtual' infront of virtuals to the migration from D1 to D2?
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