What's wrong with stability, LTS, and not fixing bugs for "compatibility".

[FeepingCreature]

On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 15:43:01 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 10:37:22 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> "If something is painful, do it more often"; this aphorism is 
>> driven by the experience that doing it less often makes it 
>> *more* painful. We risk ending up in the D1 (Python 2, Perl 5) 
>> case where people don't update at all.
>
> One idea could be, every one or two DMDFE releases, take one 
> -preview flag and make it the default. Else the "ideal" 
> language will grow further apart the language as used in the 
> field. It is a sort of debt.
>

As I understand it, the process is to add a preview switch 
`-preview=feature`, gather experience, make a DIP, then after 
that is accepted and some time has passed, change the feature to 
be on by default and optionally reverted with `-revert=feature`. 
Then after some more time, the feature is removed. I broadly 
think this is a good process inasmuch as we can get to actually 
carry it out.