On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 15:22:19 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
Just like earlier in this thread, where I mentined dfixable breaking changes and Walter implied that even though a would cause people to have to manually rewrite.
Something being dfix-able is not enough for the simple reason that legacy code in D is already becoming a thing, despite D2 only existing for nine years. A complaint has arisen many times in the forum and in DConfs that there are many packages on code.dlang.org or on Github that don't compile because the author stopped maintaining them. In many cases, these repo's have only been unmaintained for a year(!) or less, and they already don't compile.
There's no way for anyone other than the original author that can fix this; all we can do is add a warning on code.dlang.org. All the while it reduces the signal to noise ratio of good to bad D code online.
Every breakage needs to take into account the baggage of visible old code.
There's also the point that there are few changes which can be dfix-able (according to its author).
