Wishlist/Roadmap for 2.0?

[Graham St Jack]

Tristam MacDonald wrote:
> Is anyone currently running, or has thought about running, a tentative roadmap for D 2.0? Or a polled wishlist of some sort to give the Developers string feedback on what sort of issues the general D community would like to see?
> 
> I don't have any complaints about the way D is developed, and Walter is doing an incredible job seeing as he is doing it alone. But I do sometimes wonder if the development priorities as they seem to be are very beneficial, for instance, I have a feeling that CTFE is less useful to the general developer than say meaningful constructors/destructors/opAssign on structs.
> 
> Again, I am not complaining, merely suggesting a way to get balanced feedback on what is most important to the community in general...

First I have to say that (especially with the addition of const stuff) D 
is already fantastic, and we have to be careful not to compromise it 
with too much feature bloat.


That said, the things I would like to see added for 2.x are:

Multiple return values (tuples).

Adding pthread-like conditions into the language, using the same mutex 
as the synchronized keyword. It needs to be done in a way that allows 
any number of conditions per object, rather than Java's 0 or 1.

A way to keep track of what exceptions are thrown, similar to the way 
Java does it (perhaps optional via a compiler switch?).