standardization of D

[Bruno Medeiros]

David B. Held wrote:
> Ameer Armaly wrote:
>> Hi all. There are a few things which have been bothering me as of 
>> late, and I want your opinions on them to know whether or not I'm 
>> jumping at shadows. For starters, we all have a common goal of making 
>> D as widely used as possible since we all love the language, otherwise 
>> we probably wouldn't be here. At the same time, there are a few 
>> factors which as I see it make the adoption of D much more difficult 
>> and need to be addressed if we intend to succeed:
>> [...]
> 
> I think one thing to keep in mind is that the 1.0 release was basically 
> a gift to the user community to lend D that air of authenticity that 
> business folks need to let their people use a new toy.  In reality, 
> there are so many radical features being considered for D that it's 
> really comparable to C++ in its CFront stage rather than the ARM, let 
> alone, ANSI stage.  On the one hand, D needs users to push the language 
> to expose its weaknesses.  On the other hand, D needs the flexibility to 
> break some stuff to add compelling new features.  It's a tricky business 
> bootstrapping a new language, and only people who can tolerate life on 
> the bleeding edge survive in this kind of space.
> 

Indeed. Aside publicity/marketing, does D 1.0 even matter at all? By 
"matter", I mean, who of the D developers (even if just hobbying around) 
use, work with, or generally care about D 1.0 instead of the current D? 
Likely few or none, especially with the amazing new features added, and 
even more are planned to come.


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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