Tango vs Phobos

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Benji Smith wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> Benji Smith Wrote:
>> 
>>> Robert Fraser wrote:
>>>> I see the D community heading for a split. One side will be D1
>>>> (hopefully a D 1.5) +tango, and the other side will be D2+phobos.  I
>>>> don't think of this as a bad thing nessescarily, just two different
>>>> directions.
>>> That might be okay in an open source project, where the community can
>>> just fork the project and go their separate ways. But my assumption is
>>> that D1 will eventually be end-of-life'd, maybe when D3 eventually
>>> arrives. What happens to the D1 people then? Especially given the
>>> incompatibilities between D1 and D2. They won't be able to easily port
>>> their code, and my assumption is that they'll just be screwed.
>>>
>>> --benji
>> 
>> D1 is definitely not dead. LLVMDC only supports D1 and is soon to come
>> out. Dil... I'm not sure how alive it is, but that's D1-only, too. Most D
>> projects/libraries right now are D1-only.
> 
> Sure, that's the case now.
> 
> But imagine yourself back in 1997, supporting Java 1.0 but (for whatever
> reason) not wanting to jump into Java 1.1.
> 
> At the time, you wouldn't have had any problem with compilers,
> libraries, or JVMs.
> 
> But eventually, you'd be screwed. Nobody can develop anything in Java
> 1.0 anymore. It's just not possible.
> 
> My assumption is that D1 will eventually be as anachronistic as Java
> 1.0, and those who aren't willing to move their code to D2 will have to
> pick up their toys and go home.
> 
> --benji

You probably have a point, but Java 1.0 was really dead in the water - I
started programming in Java in 1998 back at the university, using 1.1, and
I don't think I came over a single 1.0 reference.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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