Is there a visible limit of D evolution?

eao197 eao197 at intervale.ru
Sat Apr 14 10:47:38 PDT 2007


There were many right words about an important role of stable branches of  
D compiler in big ("real-world") projects. I can understand the people who  
use D for long time and have big amount of code, but I'm in the different  
situation -- I just have started my switching from C++ to D. And for me  
the changes in D after v.1.000 are much more valueable then the fact of  
passing 'v.1.000 milestone'. IMHO, the next D version, 2.0 with  
const/final/invariant and AST macroses, can make D more powerful and  
attractive language. So I want see high speed of D evolution now and such  
speed of language changing makes separation of D to 'stable' and  
'unstable' versions undesirable at the current time (from my point of  
view). But that question is going to be actual when D will reach some  
limit in his evolution. When Walter Bright will have said: "There isn't  
any new feature I want add to D". That will be point of the language  
stabilisation.

So I want to ask Walter:

Do you see any visible limit in D evolution? Do you known the moment after  
that you will say: "It's time to stop add new features to languages and  
start collect user expirience after several years of stable language  
version usage"?

-- 
Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau



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