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I usually try to stay more silent (on the form at least), but I think I reached my boiling point. I've been a (self employed) full time D developer for almost 2 years now, developing quite a large codebase of personal closed source projects, as well as adopting some 3rdparty code like dlangui. And my life has become particularly miserable in the last half a year or so.
I wish I was exaggerating, but every new DMD version breaks some of my code, to a smaller or bigger extent. It can be either my own code, or dependency code, but I started drowning in deprecation messages or outright breakage. It's nearly impossible to develop any reasonable 3rdparty in those conditions. I'm tired of fixing things that weren't broken. And I can't even imagine having to support multiple branches of code because of those deprecations. But I probably should, as, periodically, I get issues that dlangui can't compile with some outdated dmd version. It's just insane!
Recently, some of the changes resulted in direct API changes. This is unacceptable, as it, basically, forces people to update major versions and split the codebase between "before" and "after". Also forcing them to support two version of the same thing.
There have been a lot of talk about Gripes, about the "Vision" of D... But more than half a year passed, and yet the breakage only gets worse, and nothing seems to be improving. At least in regards of LTS. And with no proper LTS, no proper 3rd-party can exist.
So, as pissed as I am, please, for the love of everything, stop breaking D. I understand the desire to improve the language, but can you understand the desire to just... write working code? Please, make D at least somewhat stable.
