Tango vs Phobos

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 14 07:37:32 PDT 2008


"Benji Smith" <dlanguage at benjismith.net> wrote in message 
news:g7vlkg$2gmg$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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

People are still using C89.  *shrug* 





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