On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > Because the compiler and library releases go in lockstep we'd have to wait > for another release cycle to even field-test @nogc. Not acceptable really. > > Phobos ends up battle testing every new feature and if it wasn't new > features will be definitely shipped in a broken state. Let's not forget > that new D frontend features still have many bugs that stay undetected even > after testing in Phobos. > > -- > Dmitry Olshansky > Surely the compiler should always rely on the previous compiler + standard library versions. Is there really a valid reason not to do this? Surely if the dog food is so bad no one should be eating?
