Is there an intention to 'finish' D2?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 16:05:53 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
wrote:
> I'm here since a LONG time [1] and at that time pre D1 was 
> already used in production.

Aye, I didn't look at the forums when I used D first. I am more 
like Abdulhaq, interested, try out, interesting, but cannot use 
it right now, take break, try it again, but cannot use it right 
now... etc. I think this could be a quite common pattern for D 
users (not on the forum).

> Walter pragmatic way of moving shined in the early stage, but 
> early stage is the moment to experiment things. So you are

If you keep complexity in the design low then you can get quite a 
long way by going by intuition based on experience, but once the 
type system is starting to get complex intuition becomes 
insufficient.

The challenge of language design increases in a nonlinear fashion 
with ambition.


> D2 had a vision, the D Programming Language. Something went 
> wrong with it, something went really really well, and I was for 
> a long time on the "break the compatibility" bandwagon and "fix 
> the language".
>
> Nowadays I agree with Adam, D is in a stagnant history phase, 
> not that is bad (see Elm, for example), it's an opportunity, 
> leverage it. Just stop experimenting, and go for D2 as LTS as 
> it is.

Fair enough. I guess that is what Abdulhaq asked for.

For me personally, a language optimized for WASM would be nice, 
but that might end up being another language than D. WASM will be 
more important now that Safari also supports WebGL2, I think. 
(online games etc)