On 13 March 2014 10:15, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

On 3/12/2014 5:02 PM, Chris Williams wrote:

As someone who would like to be able to use D as a language, professionally,
it's more important to me that D gain future clients than that it maintains the
ones that it has. Even more important is that it does both of those things.

The D1 -> D2 transition very nearly destroyed D by sacrificing all the momentum it had.

To draw that as a comparison to the issue on topic is one of the biggest exaggerations I've seen in a while, and you're not usually prone to that sort of thing.