Final by default?

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 08:47:13 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> To be honest, whether or not the client really exists is 
> irrelevant. We can't just keep making large breaking changes.
>
> It's not just big companies that are effected either. Every 
> breaking change potentially breaks some open source library. If 
> that library is no longer maintained then it just stops 
> working, and no one knows until a user comes along and tries to 
> compile it. When it fails to compile, most users will just 
> assume it doesn't work and move on. If that library was 
> critical to their project then we probably lose a user.

It does effectively mean that we must stop development right here 
and now and never commit anything to dlang repos anymore. Because 
most breakage comes from bug-fixes for accepts-invalid. And it 
still renders unmaintained libraries unusable. Is that what you 
want?

> As for the release time and beta: most people aren't on the 
> forums daily. They don't know this is happening. The people on 
> this forum are not representative D users.
>
> I occasionally run Python scripts at work. I can assure you I 
> have absolutely no idea when Python is going to get an update 
> and I certainly have no idea when beta tests periods are being 
> run!

Python scripts sometimes break for me when changing versions 
between 2.4 and 2.8 for example. Any changes to default python 
version are usually announced as major update.