Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Don Allen]

On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 19:39:19 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/13/2022 6:52 AM, Don Allen wrote:
>> So while I don't have a personal use for binary literals, 
>> clearly others have. But Walter sees an internal cost to the 
>> compiler.
> The internal cost to the compiler is pretty small as these 
> things go. It's more the cognitive cost of a larger language.

If that's the case, then I would say that removing binary 
literals is a really tiny step that is not worth taking, given 
the push-back from the community. I think there are other much 
larger ways in which the language is too complex, many inherited 
from C and C++. For me, that's where the real payoff is. 
Backwards compatibility, as always, will be the big impediment.