D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:57:02 +0000, Jesse Phillips wrote:

> I haven't used D1 for a long time so I can't claim a bad choice here.

Actually I think I can state an opinion here. The two things that stand 
out in my mind are.

* There has been a statement of supporting D1 while it is in use (or at 
least has a decent number of users). Maybe there aren't any, I don't see 
replies claiming such.

* One argument against dropping it was that the bugs were common between 
both languages, so the effort isn't that great to maintain both. Did that 
change with the increase in issues being fixed?

So I tried a thought experiment. What if this was D2. If D3 was taking 
its place? If D just got up and died one year from now? How is the Python 
users handling it?

http://www.reddit.com/tb/n3q7q

And I'd be ok with it. I guess that makes sense, I have been using D2 
even with it breaking code every couple steps. But the truth is, I'm 
using it for what it is now, not what it will be. What I use right now 
will still be here, and all the code I'm using is available.

Sure getting better *cough* tool *coff* support and shared libraries is 
something to look forward to, but I'm not using them now.

(So in one year, D will live on, and lets hope this improvement continues)

PS. The reddit discussion about Python3's UTF support is interesting. 
Sounds like D got it right, and Python 3 failed.