On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 17:12:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I got bitten by this just yesterday. Update dmd git master, update vibe.d git master, now my vibe.d project doesn't compile anymore due to some silly string.d error somewhere in one of vibe.d's dependencies. :-/
While we're airing grievances about code breakages, I hit this little gem the other day, and it annoyed me enough to complain about it: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5291#issuecomment-414196174
What really gets me is the actual removal of the symbol. If it had been left there with a deprecation message, I would've caught the problem immediately at the source and fixed it in a few minutes. Instead, I spent an hour or so tracing "execution" paths through a codebase that I'm unfamiliar with to figure out why a static if branch is no longer being taken.
On the topic of this thread... I was a bit confused with Dicebot's decision to leave at the time, because he seemed to like dip1000 but then later had a heel turn and left. Looking back through newsgroup threads, it seems like it was mostly that he disagreed with the project management side of things (which he also brings up in his article); an incomplete version of the feature being merged with code in the main branch having to be adjusted to support it. People have complained about it before, and it's distressingly common in D. Why it's not done in a feature branch and then merged in, I don't know, but I do agree with his objections.
