Thoughts on Backward Compatibility

[Dukc]

On Friday, 16 February 2024 at 01:44:51 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> To everyone else reading this, I'd like to leave you with one 
> last question: what do **you** like about D? What strengths 
> does D have, as a language, that you'd like to see become even 
> stronger?

It revolves around the fact it's truly general purpose - 
scripting, application development and systems programming all 
equally supported. And also that the language doesn't impose 
restrictions just for sake of some stylistic discipline.

If D ever were to "pick it's camp" and either force me to use the 
GC and the standard runtime whether I want or not, or 
alternatively ditch the GC it and impose RAII/ref counting 
instead, that would drive me away.