D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/14/11 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-14 09:11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/14/11 1:42 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> I understand how you might see things that way, but please trust me on
>>>> this one. It is the right thing do do, and the short-term difficulty
>>>> will be greatly rewarded in the long run.
>>>
>>> Probably, but as with the rest of the development of D2 everything
>>> happen to fast. TDPL was released without a compiler backing up all the
>>> features. Also no one knows what the correct behavior of a features is,
>>> what's in TDPL, what's in the compiler or what's in the spec.
>>
>> That would have been a great point if the announcement used the date of
>> December 31 of this year.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> It's still too soon because no one will know in what sate D2 is from a
> year from now.

I predict that one year from now D2 will be better than D1 and the 
Tango/D2 port will be better than Tango/D1.

Andrei