State of Play

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> It seems to me the only people who would know which compilers deserve
> the "stable" label are the folks using dmd on a daily basis to build
> their software.  Yet I've never seen the question come up here or
> anywhere else of what version of D the users find to be the most
> stable.   My impression is frankly that Walter just arbitrarily slaps
> the label on a rev that's about 10 steps back from current.  Probably
> there's more to it than that, but that's what it seems like.

The current "stable" D1 is that way because it's the one that people 
supplied me with a bundled version that has the major libraries 
specifically tested and working with it.

I think that is a fairly reasonable definition of it.