On 05/29/2016 09:58 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
The problem is not active users. The problem is companies who have > 10K LOC and libraries that are no longer maintained. E.g. It took Sociomantic eight years after D2's release to switch only a few parts of their projects to D2. With the loss of old libraries/old code (even old answers on SO), all of a sudden you lose a lot of the network effect that makes programming languages much more useful.
D1 -> D2 was a vastly more disruptive change than getting rid of auto-decoding would be.
