What did we do to deserve such spite? I don't appreciate being associated with the "move fast and break things" motto. If you look at the issue in question you

What did we do to deserve such spite? I don't appreciate being associated with the "move fast and break things" motto. If you look at the issue in question you'll see that it's not a bug, but a proposal to change the semantics of the language; rules about when something is comptime-known or not. If you replace `@compileError` (comptime effect) with `std.debug.print` (runtime effect) the print statement is never reached. Your claim is false.