On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 08:17:09 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 19:44:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
What does this have to D? Well, the phenomenon he describes
probably has a big effect on D's adoption even today, as he
was talking about the spread of programming languages, ones we
use to this day. Certainly worth thinking about, as we move
forward with building D.
That ship has sailed for D. It is no longer a simple language.
It now tries to do The Right Thing.
I found the turning point:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/67e5f0d8b59aa0ce26b2be9bd79c93d1127b2db6#diff-b6ac8bc22fdbb33f7266c9422db97c2bL212
:-)
Is this the politically correct wy to say "we don't care about
simplicity anymore!" ?