[OT] Evolving Scala

[jmh530]

On Monday, 24 March 2025 at 18:27:04 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> D's unwillingness to break anything is killing the language. 
> Not even Walter can push changes through. As came up in the 
> YouTube video discussion, you can't compile .h files because a 
> few people aren't willing to change their build process to add 
> another flag. Scala won't have that problem.

I thought the issue was that the change by itself would break 
code. Some people had proposed a switch that could control the 
priority of how the .h files would be imported, but the idea of a 
switch kind of got dropped, never agreed on and never implemented.