D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-13 22:41, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 21:00:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Well, I don't know. I don't think D2/Phobos is usable in its current
>> state.
>
> Regarding the language itself - your opinion is neither rational nor
> popular. For contrast, I think that D2 is more usable than D1 right now
> due to higher expressiveness and new language features catching more
> bugs before I have to waste any time hunting them.

Yeah more broken/unfinished features, and there are still features from 
D1 that don't work properly.

> One year is plenty of time to complete a D2 port of Tango. Also,
> remember the state of Phobos of one year ago. Apply the delta to now,
> what do you see?

I'm tried of waiting for something to be useable, I want something 
usable now and that is D1 and Tango. I don't feel like spending too much 
time in porting Tango to D2.

> Most importantly, you didn't answer why you will require *continued
> support* of D1 one year in the future, and how it would justify
> sacrificing progress elsewhere. I think that a one-year warning is very
> generous.

I probably don't need the support.

>> I think it's selfish to decide for the hole community.
>
> Wait, so you actually believe that a vote would go in your favor?

No. It's not so much about the result (because I know basically everyone 
would vote to discontinue the D1 support), it's more about the attitude 
and the way it's handled.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg