What's the current state of D?

[Tyro[a.c.edwards]]

On 5/9/2009 11:24 AM, grauzone wrote:
>> beyond and I'm quite sure that I'm not the only one. For all the
>> Naysayers out there... Keep saying nay and go the hell away. D2 is
>> just where it is supposed to be. Let’s not end up in the same mess we
>> did by trying to make impatient people happy and releasing D1.
>
> What about the people who want to use D for something actually useful?

Well, for those cases, there is D1. Which, if I may add, is extremely 
stable. Take a network administrator running his server or firewall on 
say DragonFly or any of the many flavors of BSD or Linux; he does not 
upgrade his server with nightly builds, he sticks instead with a 
"stable," well tested branch of the OS and experiments with "current." 
When current becomes stable, the OS developer does not stop developing 
his OS, he continues on with his vision while the "users" further 
stress-tests the newly stabilized branch and take steps to find and 
correct any holes in the system. And our system administrator, well, he 
doesn't switch until he is comfortable that the newly stabilized branch 
meets all his criteria for upgrade. If they are not met... he waits 
until the OS branches again.

We cannot expect the compiler developer to stop developing compilers 
until after the tools developers decide to build tools. He has done his 
job, which is to develop a stable, documented compiler. Use it to 
develop your tools which will in turn allow the compiler/language to 
gain popularity. Report any bug reports on anything that seems out of 
the ordinary so that it can either be clarified in documentation or 
corrected with code.

Walter is a damn good Engineer but I don't think his interests lie in 
writing tools (IDE and the like). So those people that do write those 
tools may want to take the "stable" compiler and start developing. So 
what if this feature "that is in D2" is not in D1? Use what you have in 
D1 and develop your tools and simply stay abreast with the development 
of D2 so that when it is time to switch, you are not in the dark.

Andrew