What's the current state of D?

[Ameer Armaly]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Ameer Armaly wrote:
>> I see. What about the actual "standard library bits" for common tasks 
>> like file I/O, strings, date and time, filesystem manipulation, etc. My 
>> main gripe is having two regularly accepted libraries that do the same 
>> extremely common functions; it makes us look unpolished, especially when 
>> there is the "community" versus "official" difference I mentioned 
>> earlier. Why not just merge the two libraries into the one D standard 
>> library and be done with it?
>
> That's being done for D2. It is not for D1, as that would break everyone's 
> code.
Ah. If we're aiming for one standard library, then I'll shut up and try and 
understand const.