"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary >> compatibility: >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495 >> >> While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about breaking >> binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big problem with >> breaking source code compatibility. >> >> This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes. > > Freezing things against breaking changes is all fine and good, but NOT > before they're reached a point where they're good enough to be frozen. > Premature freezing is how you create cruft and other such shit. Let's not > go jumping any guns here. >
Keep in mind, too, that Linux has decades of legacy and millions of users. That's a *very* different situation from Phobos. Apples and oranges.
