How is the D programming language financed?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/23/10 3:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:43:11 -0500, Thomas Mader
> <thomas.mader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 2010-12-23 21:01, schrieb spir:
>>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:41:06 +0100
>>> Thomas Mader<thomas.mader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it's very important for D to step into the corporate world to
>>>> get more stability, a bigger community and therefore a stronger
>>>> toolchain.
>>>> For this to happen companies need trust in the future of the project
>>>> and
>>>> the future are the people and the infrastructure behind D.
>>>
>>> This is true, but having important corporate investment would also
>>> strongly freeze the language in a premature state. It's too early
>>> (for D2).
>>>
>>> Denis
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>>
>> I agree but I must confess that I'm confused about the state of D2.
>> It's said that for new projects someone should use D2 but I often
>> recognize that it is not considered ready/finished yet. On the other
>> hand I also read somewhere that with the release of the book "The D
>> programming language" D2 is finalized?
>
> The book describes the concepts that D2 will implement. In that respect,
> TDPL's word is final (mostly). It does not mean the reference compiler
> properly implements those concepts. There are still several concepts
> (alias this and inout come to mind) which are not implemented well at all.
>
> In particular, the book makes very little mention of Phobos, which is
> still being changed profusely.
>
> I'd say D2 is good enough for toy projects, and if you find bugs, they
> can help us make it better. But if you want to make a serious large
> project and don't want to deal with instability, I'd recommend using D1,
> but you may find D1 Phobos quite lacking. I can't really recommend Tango
> due to possible taint issues, but you may find that an acceptable
> alternative.

I wonder how stable D2 is when used as a "better D1", i.e. making 
conservative use of new features. I think the bread and butter support 
is as rock solid in both languages.

Andrei