Please be more careful when changing the language behavior

mw mingwu at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 06:39:44 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 10:57:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 07:56:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/2/2020 9:21 PM, mw wrote:
>>> In my view, D2 has already been feature rich enough for 
>>> people to do their work. What they want most is compiler 
>>> stability, not any more new language features. By freezing 
>>> D2, they will have a more stable platform to get their work 
>>> done without worrying about breakage. And for you, it will 
>>> buy you more time, e.g. a few years, to design carefully the 
>>> next major features / fixes you want introduce in D3.
>>
>> We simply don't have the resources to support a fork of the 
>> language.
>
> I wish people who asks for D3 were more ready to do the work or 
> finance it. We're barely figuring out issues with D2.

I just joined the dlang-community on github, thanks @Seb for the 
invitation.


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