Stick a fork in it

[Jeff]

>   - Versioned specification, so D can be a language specification rather a
>     compiler implementation (this will help compiler developers).

Agreed!

I wonder if we should start a thread dedicated to such "lateral" changes 
  that people would like for the 2.0 fork? Any thoughts on this?

To be honest, these are the changes that excite me most; they let me 
believe that just because some aspect of the current state of D is less 
than ideal, it doesn't have to stay this way.