Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Mike Franklin]

On Friday, 19 July 2019 at 22:12:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> To be honest, while I understand W&A's stance of wanting to 
> stabilize the language and thereby (hopefully) drive adoption, 
> IMO things would be better served if we started working towards 
> D3.

I generally agree, but I was encouraged by Andrei's relatively 
recent post 
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/q7j3s0$15n7$1@digitalmars.com)

"We've been worrying too much about changing things."

"We should do what C, C++, Java, C# and many other languages do - 
leave past mistakes in maintenance mode and move on with new 
stuff."

This "add, but do no harm" is a good compromise, though it's much 
harder to avoid the "weird sh**" because that new stuff often 
interacts badly with the existing stuff and often limits what new 
stuff can be done.  But it's a better stance than that of the 
past 5 years.

It was quite exciting to see that from Andrei and it prompted me 
to get back into contributing to D.  I think D can have a 
brighter future if that attitude is embraced by all.  Now we just 
need more talent, manpower, and much better cooperation.

Mike