Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

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On Friday, 8 May 2015 at 14:04:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
> The funny thing is that people keep complaining about the lack 
> of tools for D, and when a tool is built into the language they 
> say "That tool shouldn't be part of the language". Yet, if it 
> were omitted, people would say "Why doesn't D have this tool 
> built in?". Human nature, I guess.

Well, I am not saying "why doesn't D have any tools built in?" or 
even "why doesn't D have a great IDE?". I'm saying that tools are 
not as critical, they only affect a specific demographic, but not 
the bottom line.

There is a large potential demographic base that are quite 
content with barebones tooling (emacs/unix), so if you by 
improving the language/runtime can appeal more of those 
developers you also have a baseline for extending into other 
demographics. Extending into the "spoiled kids" demographic will 
lead  exactly to what you'd expect… more work, more demands.

"Tooling" and "testing" are very opinionated, fashionable and 
situated topics. Much more so than language semantics.