Andrei's Google Talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/04/2010 07:25 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 05:16 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>
>> I know of several large apps written in D, they're all D1/Tango.
>
> The incomplete state of D2 has to be the most embarrassing question that
> could have been asked at Andrei's talk, but then you'd have to be
> familiar with D to ask that question. Andrei likes to talk about
> presentations showing only what's good, but he gave a whole talk about
> an incomplete language while hawking his book for said language, but
> made no mention of D1 vs D2.
>
> People often ask for a status, but there never seems to be good answers.
> Where's the roadmap? What's being worked on? What's left to fix? Is
> there a release date that's being worked towards? It used to coincide
> with the release of Andrei's book, but that has come and gone.

Walter is more silent than usual because he's working very hard on the 
64-bit compiler. He hopes to have one by the end of this month. His next 
big goal is shared library support.

Andrei