D is coming to a town near you

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On 02/20/2013 12:42 PM, bearophile wrote:
> 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

Yes. Shared Libraries Please.

Thank you.