Re: Final by default?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/12/14, 8:35 PM, Manu wrote:
On 13 March 2014 10:15, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com
<mailto:newshou...@digitalmars.com>> wrote:
    On 3/12/2014 5:02 PM, Chris Williams wrote:

        As someone who would like to be able to use D as a language,
        professionally,
        it's more important to me that D gain future clients than that
        it maintains the
        ones that it has. Even more important is that it does both of
        those things.


    The D1 -> D2 transition very nearly destroyed D by sacrificing all
    the momentum it had.


To draw that as a comparison to the issue on topic is one of the biggest
exaggerations I've seen in a while, and you're not usually prone to that
sort of thing.

Actually a lot of measurements (post statistics, downloads) and plenty 
of evidence (D-related posts on reddit) support that hypothesis. The 
transition was a shock of much higher magnitude than both Walter and I 
anticipated.

Andrei