State of the Compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 16:23:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> If you have more pressure not to not change anything, I think 
> this will have negative consequences. Bad ideas must be 
> removed, and removed as soon as possible, if the language is to 
> thrive.

You cannot delete things from a standard library, that makes it 
non-standard. You need to add stuff, then have a looooong 
deprecation period before removing the old stuff.

It is actually easier to change the language than to change the 
semantics of a standard library.