Does D have too many features?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, May 03, 2012 15:30:40 Don Clugston wrote:
> What is this D3 thing ????
> As far as I can tell, 'D3' was invented by newcomers to the forums.

I think that what it comes down to is that there are a variety of people who 
want features added or changed in D which are either not going to happen 
anytime soon or will never happen in D2 (especially if they're major breaking 
changes). So, they figure/hope that we'll have a new revision of the language 
where we'll be able to make breaking changes and then maybe the changes that 
they want will make it in then. After all, particularly from the perspective 
of a newbie, we already had D2 which changed a bunch of stuff from D1, why 
wouldn't we have D3 later on? And for folks who really want to see changes 
that aren't going to happen, the idea that we're going to have another major 
revision of the language which might make the changes that they want sounds 
really appealing.

I think that Walter and Andrei have made it fairly clear when they've said 
anything on the subject that there is no intention to make any kind of D3 
anytime soon and that if we do, it'll be years from now after D2 is mature and 
well-established, and it actually makes sense to do a new major revision. But 
I do think that you're right in that the very idea of a D3 was created by 
folks in the newsgroup. Walter and the other developers have been focusing on 
stabilizing D2 as _the_ version of the language, not finishing it up so that 
they can move onto D3. And the misconceptions about D1 that you've pointed out 
in the past probably just help contribute to the idea that we'll have a D3 at 
some point. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, but there's no point in worrying 
about it for years yet.

- Jonathan M Davis