Tango vs Phobos

[Nick B]

Lars

Thanks for the response.  Its good to know that the Tango team is 
planning to transition to D2.0, even if you still have some major issues 
to work through, and you have to wait until Walter fixes these critical 
bugs.

cheers

Nick B


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
> We don't expect const to be removed :) As it is, this must be resolved
> before it is possible to properly port Tango:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2267
> 
> 1644 was fixed now, but is in our opinion the lesser solution to the
> problem - we'd much rather have 1961.
> 
> 2204 is still open I think.
> 
> Also as long as closures are allocated on stack, that is likely to be rather
> detrimental to the performance.
> 
> Once we have a resolution on that, work on the Tango D 2.0 branch will
> probably continue, and this branch will be available to all who need it. If
> possible, an official release may happen shortly after the time Walter
> calls D 2.0 to be stable.
> 
> One other concern is that it is almost impossible to have code that is both
> D1 and D2 compatible, something which mean the mantainance of two branches,
> a potentially daunting task - it would be good if the "syntactical
> correctness" restriction on versioned out blocks could be removed for at
> least D1/D2 identifiers.
>