What's left to do for a stable D2?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

grauzone wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> Jason House wrote:
>>>> Andrei's finishing his last TDPL chapter, Sean is updating 
>>>> std.thread(?), and Walter's been fixing forward reference and CTFE 
>>>> bugs. What's left? 
>>>
>>> Documentation. The Phobos docs are rather bad, and don't even include 
>>> the core modules. Also there's std.thread, shouldn't it be core.thread?
>>>
>>> You can't release D2 "on the masses" like that.
>>
>> It's only the language spec which is getting frozen, not the libraries.
>> TDPL intentionally doesn't say much at all about Phobos.
> 
> Well, you see, as TDPL is releases, there will be much attention on D, 
> and people will go and try it out. Keep in mind that those people will 
> know next to nothing about D. If the first what they'll experience is 
> crashing on the chaotic documentation, that's going to be a major 
> disappointment. It's like giving a birthday party without cake.

Expending a fraction of the energy spent in wringing hands on actually 
helping with the documentation would mark a definite improvement.

Andrei