Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 16:39:18 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
> You seem to be assuming that everyone already agrees on which 
> set of changes should be made to the language. (Otherwise, how 
> could you expect anyone to "officially back" a side project?)
>
> But agreeing on which changes to make and, especially, which to 
> NOT make, is the hard part. And it's why you'd need a lot of 
> planning & discussion up front (if any of us non-founders 
> wanted to participate). And many people don't understand this, 
> which IMO is behind a lot of hard feelings in the forums.

The basic idea would be not to radically change the language, but 
come down to a clean core and build the existing useful concepts 
on top of that core.

A year ago or so it was claimed that the compiler core would 
would be refactored and before that it was asked in the forum if 
current users would prefer non-breaking changes or a clean up. My 
impression was that the majority was willing to take some 
breaking changes in order to get a more streamlined experience.

Anyway, it is summertime, maybe we can discuss this later in the 
autumn ;-).

(I don't have time to follow the forums.)