The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Aug 15 14:41:20 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> As far as threads, I agree.  One must be chosen.
>>
>> The threading issue is more problematic. D 2.0 is doing a ground up 
>> rethink on how to approach threading, and it's hard to imagine that 
>> not impacting the threading part of the library.
> 
> So is classic threading going to be thrown out entirely?  If so then I 
> guess it eliminates the problem of exposing a Thread class.

I don't know. Bartosz is working on it. He understands the issues far 
better than I do. What I do believe is that handling concurrency well 
will be a breakthrough feature for D.



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