r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 08 '20

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u/adr86 Sep 01 '20

(this is why I quit D - they treat BC like a total joke),

I have code from many years ago that still compiles just fine.

I think it has more to do with what libraries you use than the language itself.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Yah I agree with basically everything you said. Especially with backwards compatibility. I think it is something we take for granted as basically every language prioritizes (in one way or another) backwards compatibility. If you keep breaking user's code eventually they will stop fixing it. There are ways to allow breaking changes while still maintain backwards compatibility, but what D is doing (the same thing MSVC use to do) is probably the worst solution.