Simplicity and complexity of dlang

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 14:03:01 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 08:10:13 UTC, MGW wrote:
>> Having a huge project (approximately 8000 strings) and while 
>> supporting it permanently I often find out that changes that 
>> take place in new versions of the program (particularly in 
>> 2.072)are too hard to perceive and use (especially the basic 
>> notions have been replaced, for ex.:the sorting of strings).
>> Offer:
>> To fix the basic notions such as sorting etc.
>> It is possible to divide the language into levels. For 
>> example, for beginners it will permanently be a simple and 
>> immutable and for investigations it will be another separate 
>> branch.
>
> why do you update your compiler if there are no issues with the 
> current version?

You have to upgrade your compiler in order to be able to keep on 
using D in the future. Else your project will be frozen in time.