On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 01:46:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
A cautionary tale we should all keep in mind.
http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p0977r0.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8mq10v/bjarne_stroustroup_remeber_the_vasa_critique_of/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17172057
No doubt that all this complexity is partially due to having a
religious like zeal when it comes to preserving backwards
compatibility.
I mean create a new official file extension, so that it can make
much needed breaking changes on it.
For all the faults that D has, it is not afraid deprecate
language features if it turns out to be a really bad idea.
