Is there an intention to 'finish' D2?

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 18:20:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 06:03:07PM +0000, Adam D Ruppe via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 17:59:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> wrote:
>> > I'm seriously hoping Andrei pulls off stdv2, because that's 
>> > the only way I see to move forward with Phobos.

Yes, that is my hope. An updated Phobos would change the culture 
of this project and make it exciting to contribute as part of the 
community, whether that's core development or libraries, blog 
posts, whatever.

>> It's that or we fork the language and seize control then just 
>> start actually fixing things.
>
> I have to say, the thought has crossed my mind a few times.  
> Only thing is, this community is already so tiny, splitting it 
> would probably mean death to both resulting dialects.

The main reason to fork the language would be to make changes 
that should happen but aren't, or to do things that wouldn't be 
practical in the current language. That should bring in more 
users. On the other hand, if you don't have a *completed* 
language fork, the new won't be doing anything but taking 
manpower from the current. I honestly don't see anything other 
than the GC that would motivate a fork at this time.