Shared pain

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 19-nov-10, at 17:42, Steve Teale wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:23:44 -0500, bearophile wrote:
>
>> Regarding the creation of immutable data structures, there is a  
>> proposal
>> that is probably able to remove some of the pain: the result of  
>> strongly
>> pure functions may become implicitly castable to immutable.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> BP,
>
> I admire your dedication to language theory and purity, but there are
> many who'd translate that to impracticality and obscurity.
>
> I came to D in the first place because I found it refreshingly clear  
> and
> easy to use after C++ and Java. But now it's getting painful.
>
> I've bailed out several times, just keep coming back to see how it is
> doing. I have a bunch of code that worked with D1 and D2 at one time.
> I've given up on D1, since it is now obviously legacy, but even  
> without
> the complexity of supporting both, It's been real hard this visit to  
> get
> things working again.
>
> What's your estimate of how long it will be before D is a stable  
> language?

well D1 is pretty stable I think, if you are interested in stability  
that is a good choice, has worked well for me.
This does not mean that I will not consider D2, but D1 is my main  
workhorse.

Fwzi

>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>