Phobos - breaking existing code

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 23:50:52 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> We need to do a lot better.
>
> I agree. D has to come back to the living. It looks like D is 
> hibernating.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

As much as I like D, hibernating is a very kind way to put it.
D feels very ugly/kludgy with all the properties and @ vomit
everywhere and that's something that will never get fixed without
serious backwards compatibility breakage. IMO rust got it right
with immutable by default, but hindsight is grand(To be fair, 
rust lifetime management is really ugly too)