Does D have too many features?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Era Scarecrow wrote:
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>  If anything, I would consider D3 an ideal, something to work
> towards. And no it wouldn't be started or really worked on for at
> 10-15 years after D's mature and at Andrei's goal of having at least
> a million users. And as stated before, if there [b]IS[/b] going to
> be a D3 at any point it should have no problem calling D2 code.

Do we know (roughly) how many D users are out there right now?


>  Course thinking of D3 now is kinda like thinking of flying cars and
> how you want a flying car and you won't buy a car today until it can
> fly...  Back (in the 50-60's was it?) they thought we would be
> having a flying car for every family and had these really badly done
> animations of what they expected to see. I don't see any flying cars
> outside of Hollywood. Best if we stick in the present and deal with
> our problems now.

There aren't any flying cars in Hollywood either. They're either just
artist's concepts (*cough*CGI models*cough*), held up by strings, or
just superimposed on an animated background.


T

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