How much time will D1 be around?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Now that D2 is being developed, I don't know how much time it will take 
until it is finished. Once it is, what will happen to D1? Will anyone 
still use it?

I ask this because from time to time I like to add new features to 
Descent to improve D1 support. Semantic analysis is pretty done for D1, 
except for some bugs that are hard to fix, or at least take a lot of 
time. :-P

For D2, there's still missing a lot of semantic analysis porting from 
DMD, and doing that is kind of boring (adding new features, that's fun). 
But if I add features to D1 and it will be gone soon, what's the point? 
Also, I feel that the great majority of the people here don't see an IDE 
as a helpful programming tool.

But, in another point of view, I see a lot of big differences between D1 
and D2. For instance, I don't like const/invariant, I don't care about 
that, I never had bugs or trouble or performance problems because of 
mutability problems, so I consider D1 easier to grasp. So I wonder if 
anyone else thinks "No matter what will happen, I'll probably just stick 
with D1".

What do you think about all this?

Thanks,
Ary