Does D have too many features?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-03 22:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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

People has been talking about D3 for quite a while. Have a look at:

http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel

Search for "Known to be deferred to D3.0". The features listed there 
were talked about before D2.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg