D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

[monkyyy]

On Friday, 9 June 2023 at 08:05:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/8/2023 7:56 AM, GrimMaple wrote:
>> The truth is, I've been nagging about LTS branches, and I've 
>> been nagging directly to Mike about it, and it went nowhere.
>
> It's not about not caring about it. It's just that I can't see 
> how it would be effective. Making LTS versions balkanizes the 
> language into multiple languages, which will play hell with 3rd 
> party library maintenance.
>
> Clearly, the deprecation scheme is not serving our users well. 
> We'll have to find a better way.

2 versions is hardly balkanizing

Given even 1 wave of depreciations I would have dropped dlanggui; 
if grim says he needs an lts to continue supporting that ancient 
project I think theres a simple question:

Would you rather make an lts or let dlanggui die entirely?