On 2013-11-07 07:48, Rob T wrote:
It's not zero benefit, although it may seem like that over a small period of time, it's over an extended period that inconsistencies can become a very significant cause of productivity loss. I'd rather fix up my old code, and I know how horrible that is especially for production code that is in use, it's just not fun, but if language stability was more important to me than productivity, I would not have made the very painful move from C/C++ to D.
I agree with you. Unfortunately the those with commit access do not agree. They have no interest, what so ever, in breaking backward compatibility due to consistency.
The result is exactly what happened with D1. At some arbitrary point in time it was decided that backwards compatibility must be kept, almost at all cost. This was decided even though the language and the standard library was far from stable.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
