D is coming to a town near you

[bearophile]

Rob T:

> and do a ton of boring stuff like stabilize D2/Phobos before 
> moving on to D3, install better processes for documentation and 
> developing the language specifications, and of course continue 
> to improve the release process (it still needs a real beta and 
> stable release), etc.

"Stabilize" is the wrong word to use. Implementing the 64 
compiler is good, implementing shared libraries is good, porting 
D runtime/Phobos to RISC CPUs is good, replacing the GC is good, 
improving the floating point management by DMD is good, and so on 
and on.

But in my opinion what's more needed now is instead to try to 
complete as much as possible the design and implementation of the 
missing/broken/incomplete parts of the core language (like 
finishing const/immutable design, finishing the implementation of 
pure, redesigning properties, fixing @trusted, doing what's 
possible with shared, doing what's possible to finish the 
inference of tags like pure in templated functions, finishing the 
design of packages, finishing the implementation of the module 
system, finishing the design of operator overloading, and so on. 
The complete list of broken/unfinished parts scares me).

Bye,
bearophile