On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 09:36:26 UTC, Manu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 13 November 2014 10:57, Walter Bright wrote:
This is good news for D! It lowers the bar for writing 64 bit
D code on
Windows, and it also enables us to abandon support for
versions of VS prior
to 2013.
Many, many corporate VS users get stuck on legacy versions of
VS for a
very long time. We still use VS2010 at work for instance, with
no plan to upgrade.
It would be a shame to lose legacy VS support, but I think the
focus should certainly emphasise these future releases.
It's perfectly possible to install newer versions side-by-side
and even combine the new IDE with the old crap compiler for
transitioning, which I've done since the very first CTP.
Starting with 2013 the express editions are also fully usable and
only lack plugin support.
The rest is just excuses.
