All this talk about 1.0 makes me worried.

[kris]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> 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.

Right on the money. What's the hurry, anyway?

I think what's more important is a general feeling of progress. The 
recent changes for 'bit' is a good example. As you say, D is a fine 
langauge, with awesome potential; but it needs some rough edges cleaned 
up quite badly (such as improved debugger support, the never-ending AA 
concerns, and a variety of others).

I suppose many people like the idea of placing a stake in the ground ~ 
as means of marking/stamping progress? If so, then one would need to 
ensure all features present at that point would not be subsequently 
revoked (in the manner of 'bit', for example). I think that's a more 
accurate measure of a "release" candiate than anything else.

- Kris