Back from the dead - How is D going?

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bruno Medeiros
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> After a long hiatus I think I'm now able to come back to the D community and
>  be participating with it again. As a result I have more than 16000 unread
> posts in digitalmars.D alone and I'm still wondering whether I should try to
> check all those threads or not... (I will read up on the announce NG at
> least).
> Regardless of whether I do that or not, would anyone be so kind as to
> posting a brief (or longer if willing :P) info of the main issues that have
> come up in the last year or so? How is the Tango vs Phobos integration? 1.0
> vs 2.0? Concurrency features? Tool stuff, like LDC and stuff, how are they
> going? Thanks in advance. :)

Welcome back!

As far as real events and not just endless NG arguments, probably the
best thing to do would be to read the last year's worth of "The One
With D" blog.

Tango and D2 are both using the same runtime now, but Tango is ported
to D2 yet, so that bit is not really resolved.
LDC still doesn't work on Windows except for some definitions of the
word "work".
Concurrency still is not done.
Now they're trying to add "safe" and "unsafe" markers in addition to
shared, __gshared, and three flavors of const.
Andrei's got a book nearly done, "The D Programming Language".   And
there's all kinda flurry to get stuff nailed down before that goes
gold.
Fixed-sized arrays are now value types.

--bb