What remains to be done for D2?

[Don]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/14/11 4:07 AM, Don wrote:
>> Petr Janda wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can someone please explain what needs to be done (other than fixing
>>> the plethora of bugs) to call D2 final? And if someone can provide
>>> an approximate estimate of when?
>>
>> There are a couple of areas of major missing functionality:
>> * CTFE should support pointers (upcoming release 2.054) and classes
>> (2.055).
>> * alias this, inout, safe aren't fully implemented, and will probably
>> require language changes/clarifications.
>> * Built-in struct functions (opEquals, toString, etc) need more thought.
>> * I suspect that we'll see changes to the modifiers for function
>> parameters (in, out, inout, ref, auto ref)
> 
> * Work last kinks out of qualified constructors and destructors
> * Low-level threading support with shared; change language to match TDPL 
> (that means e.g. shared/synchronized methods is at class level, not 
> method level).
> * Minor touches such as user-defined operator '$', @disable etc.
> 
> Work that is not quintessential for using D but very important:
> 
> * Finish typechecking for SafeD
> * Make SafeD == CompileTimeD
> 
> We should put this list somewhere.
> 
>> At the current rate of progress I estimate we are about six months from
>> having the language implemented (but still with bugs).
>> But there will still be bugs which can only be fixed by making small
>> changes to the language spec.
>>
>> Phobos is quite a bit further away from being "final".
> 
> * Define allocator abstraction
> * Overhaul std.container to use it; add classic containers to 
> std.container (doubly-linked list, hash, deque)
> * Define streaming abstraction (already in my head)
> * Add high-level networking (Jonas, where art thou?)
> * Redo xml (Tomek)
> * Many other changes and additions
> 
> 
> Andrei

Added to the existing roadmap at:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel