Is there an intention to 'finish' D2?

[FeepingCreature]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 11:32:15 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> Going back to my original question at the top of the thread, do 
> you have an answer to my questions? Is the answer actually well 
> known but it has slipped me by? I think you're saying it's 
> already polished and done, and features tend to work well. So 
> what about the perennial issues, memory management, DLL 
> support, Android/iOS support? Shared? They keep coming up, do I 
> have to spend a few months digging in to D again to see if my 
> experience is now one of 'it just works' on Windows, Linux, 
> Mac? Mobile?

I mean, I guess the answer for us is that we just don't need any 
of those.

I don't think D is ready to be used by everyone for every 
purpose. But I think it's ready to be used by some for some 
purposes, and has been for a long time. Even by many for many 
purposes. I think the set of "customers that D is ready for" is 
badly communicated at the moment, but it is definitely non-empty. 
(Evidence one.)

PS: I concur with the GC. I think this is one case where D 
majorly falls down, because it advertises as "you don't need to 
think about memory management" and if you take that seriously, 
you *will* get punished for it as you scale up input. You can't 
write D like Java, because D's GC is significantly less 
forgiving, but this is not communicated anywhere.

PPS: 'shared' is one of those features that we've just elected to 
not touch with a ten foot pole. It does nothing useful for us; I 
believe I've had rants on the topic. :) Luckily, it's easy to 
pretend it doesn't exist.