TDPL goes out for preliminary review

[retard]

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:55:12 -0500, merlin wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> TDPL, currently counting 398 pages including a small index, has entered
>> editorial review this morning. The book draft includes everything
>> except the threading chapter. I've marked the personal record of
>> writing one chapter in one night :o).
> 
> Congratulations.  I must profess that over the last couple of months
> I've been feeling a big uptick of enthusiasm about D2.  It is really
> quit an amazing language and with library and tool support should be
> able to deliver what C, C++, Java, C# (and lately Go) have not.
> 
> I did go through a period of skepticism about D leadership when I
> realized that D2 was not really backwards compatible with D1 and had
> trouble understanding why llvm hasn't played a bigger role in the long
> term planning of the project.  I have since come around to the point of
> view that my fears were mostly misplaced...D2 is something quite special
> and I think ultimately will take hold.

Just like D1 solved the problem of metaprogramming, D2 will solve many, 
if not most, multi-core threading problems with the immutable and thread 
local data types.