Is there an intention to 'finish' D2?

[Abdulhaq]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 17:31:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 05:21:40PM +0000, Guillaume Piolat via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 08:55:27 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> > Is there a set of features that, when fully working, will 
>> > mean that D2 is now finished? Or will it forever be in a 
>> > state of ongoing feature development?
>> > 
>> > We all know that properly finishing and polishing the last 
>> > 10% of a software project takes 90% of the time. Is there a 
>> > timescale for that?  What platforms will it support?
>
> Even C has not stopped evolving. And C++.  Why should we stop 
> now?  The time when D stops evolving is the time it's dead.
>
>
>> What is an example of a successful language that would stop 
>> feature development?
>> 
>> If D would stop feature development, it wouldn't solve the 
>> "billion posts" problem of people not vested in D complaining 
>> loudly in the D forums.
>
> I suspect these are just the vocal minority. The rest of the 
> happy D users are too busy actually writing code than debating 
> on the forums.
>
>
> T

I'm not suggesting, as I made explicitly clear in a previous 
post, to stop new feature development.

I think some D users would like to see increased user numbers and 
are happy to get good practical suggestions as to how to do that. 
Andrei for one. It would help the hobbyists too because there 
would be more hands to do more work.