On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 04:40:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Yeah, the kernel is decent about it, but the rest of the system sure as hell isn't.
Let me tie this into D. A couple weeks ago, I revived one of my work D projects - about 30,000 lines of code - that was dormant for about a year. The language worked fine. The library was a bit more of a pain. std.date's deprecation still makes me mad. And the move of std.string.replace over to std.array meant not one of the modules compiled without a change. (Really easy change: "import std.string : replace;" why that works and "import std.string;" doesn't I'm not sure. I'm probably relying on a bug here!) But still, the D language manages to move forward without much breakage. dmd pretty much gets better each release. Phobos has some breakage though. Not really bad; updating this code went quickly. I think I spent half an hour on it. But, there was some minor changes needed. We might have a stable language, but if the library doesn't do the same, we'll never be Windows.
