D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, December 11, 2011 14:56:50 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/10/11 3:19 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I'm glad this message has been met with virtually no reaction!
> Nevertheless, I reddit'ed it to announce the decision to the larger
> community.
> 
> http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/n8sit/d1_to_be_discontinued_on_dece
> mber_31_2012_after/

Well, at this point, I expect that pretty much no one who only uses D1 and not 
D2 does much in this newsgroup, and anyone who only uses D2 is not going to 
have a problem with it. The only ones likely too make a fuss about it here 
would be those who use both, and since they use both presumably they're okay 
with this in the long run as long as D2 is up to snuff, and that situation has 
been steadily improving. Also, since the actual date is over a year off, 
there's plenty of time for things to improve quite a bit more. Not to mention, 
just because dmd1 won't be geting any more bug fixes doesn't mean that you 
can't use it anymore - and since it's on github, interested parties can always 
fork it.

I'm still a bit surprised that pretty much no one has responded, but then 
again, you posted it only about 24 hours ago. So between that and the fact 
that most of the people around here focus on D2, I expect that the number of 
people who have would have read it and would be unhappy about it is rather 
limited.

- Jonathan M Davis