why a part of D community do not want go to D2 ?

Daniel Gibson metalcaedes at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 14:42:58 PST 2010


Trass3r schrieb:
>> You gain a lot of power by using D1 instead of Java/C++: Usable 
>> Templates with static if, slices, a GC, unsigned types, ..
> Yep, working with C++ again feels like being thrown back to the stone age.
> 
>> It's also the (at least felt) immaturity of DMD for D2, I guess. You 
>> read about problems in the NG all the time.
> Yet it's the only real option to go on Windoze :(
> 
>> A port of Tango for D2 would be really helpful, because Phobos2, like 
>> Phobos1, is no fun to use..
> Won't happen anyway.
> 
>> freedom), usable (as in relatively bugfree) up-to-date D2 compiler 
>> that supports a plethora of platforms \o/
> Well compiling it for Windoze is still a PITA.

Shouldn't GDC work on windows with MinGW? Maybe someone could try that and build 
an installer or something.

> 
>> Also people seem to work on LDC2 again.
> Yeah, they are at 2.050 but I don't know if it works yet.
> http://bitbucket.org/prokhin_alexey/ldc2

Already at 2.050? That was quick :-)


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