All this talk about 1.0 makes me worried.

[Bruno Medeiros]

All this talk about 1.0 (and other stuff like slogans) makes me worried. 
People talk as if D nearing completion: There is occasionally threads 
about the coming or even requesting the release of 1.0; In a recent 
post(news://news.digitalmars.com:119/dvuc0r$19t3$1@digitaldaemon.com) 
Don Clugston comments that what's left for 1.0 is "Not much more" and 
enumerates just a few items remaining; Other people also don't mention 
much more items; And we have people finding slogans for D mentioning 
about it's uber greatness and simplicity and whatnot; ...

Am I the only one to find that (even besides the library) there is still 
a long way for D to go? And I'm talking about the language itself: it's 
design and not the tools and other stuff from the environment.
I have a list (mirrored in my wiki entry) of pending languages issues 
which I or others have reported/posted about, most of them acknowledged 
issues/problems by the core of the NG.
A recent thread by Oskar Linde 
(news://news.digitalmars.com:119/e00v0m$te2$3@digitaldaemon.com)
brings to attention another issue about associative arrays, which I too 
find important, and which I think are not the only issues regarding 
arrays in general.
Many similar threads exists, (most of them I believe with not very good 
ideas), but some others are very pertinent.
And there is a list of more issues about D that I have pending in my 
mind which I haven't yet the time to "research" and write about (which 
is the case for example of the immutability issue, want to finish 
reading that pdf about Javari).

So in my opinion there is a lot of work to be done in D, and I'm not 
gonna bother thinking about 1.0 or even slogans until these are (at 
least mostly) resolved. Don't get me wrong, I already think D is a great 
language, and much better than C++ (not that hard to be though.. ), but 
much of D's greatness is still in potential only.


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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D