D is coming to a town near you

[John Colvin]

On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 21:26:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> 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.

+1

It's the most important issue for me. Particular feature bugs can 
be worked around, lack of shared library support is 
insurmountable for many applications.