Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

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On Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 12:16:18 UTC, d user wrote:
> If there's anything to learn from Go's success, it's that you 
> don't need a good language design to be successful. If you want 
> D to be successful, submit some PRs to SDC. If you want D to 
> stay unpopular, keep moving towards Haskell with braces.

I think Go's "success" comes from:

1. C++14 is too complicated to make sense for many commercial 
projects.

2. Java et al are heavy weight and makes little sense for 
small-and-easy-to-deploy projects.

3. Go is designed around a single concurrency idiom with 
theoretical backing, which makes running a pilot with it 
motivating.

4. Corporate backing.

5. It takes a stance on aesthetics and is therefore not too 
difficult to master.


I'd like to see someone make a list of programming languages that 
are consistently growing (I think popularity is the wrong metric, 
it can take decades). I bet they either:

1. focus on a particular sense of aesthetics

2. are tied to a framework

3. are domain specific

Very few languages ship with extensive tooling from the start. 
Tooling gives a boost, but as you can see with Dart, that is not 
sufficient. And Dart is arguably a better language than Go with 
strong domain specific advantages...