The current status of D?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/03/2011 03:57 PM, Don wrote:
> On 01.12.2011 22:24, Buk wrote:
>> Simple question, though not necessarily a simple answer:
>>
>> Is D ready for prime time?
>>
>> Sub-questions:
>>
>> 1. How stable is the language specification?
>> 2. How stable is the language implementation?
>
> I made a list of major language issues in mid-2009.
>
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#section6
>
> The next release (2.057, release in December) implements half of the
> remaining items.
>
>> 3. How stable are the standard library specifications?
>> 4. How stable are the standard library implantations?
>>
>> The last time I looked was just after the D1/D2 split, and much of the
>> design
>> was being revamped and the rate of changes and deprecations was (IMO)
>> too high
>> to consider its use for complex, multi-developer projects.
>>
>> Looking around the docs here, I see that some of the libraries are due
>> for
>> deprecation early next year. Barring surprises, are they likely to be
>> the last
>> major changes?
>>
>> Thanks for your time, buk.
>

- Clean up is(XXX) and __traits(XXX) syntax (eg via meta.XXX proposal, 
Bugzilla:3702).

There is nothing wrong with is(XXX), so what is this about?