Where the schedule of D development?

[Lucas Goss]

Lynn Allan wrote:
>> Just... follow the Mono's road map...
> http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_Project_Roadmap
> 
> Hmmmmm ... their Feb, 2006 webpage mentions .Net framework 1.1 being
> the latest ... that isn't a confidence builder.

The .Net 1.1 framework was implemented in Mono 1.0 and released on June 
30th, 2004. Their newest branch, Mono 1.2, is in the final stages of 
release and has Generic types support and "execution system and core 
class libraries (C# 2.0)." It also includes technology previews for XML 
2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET 2.0, and more. The main thing it is behind on 
is the GUI, but the System.Windows.Forms 1.1 is added in the 1.2 
release. In MonoDevelop there is also a GUI designer which works very 
well from what I've tested. I have to use .NET for work, and while I 
don't really like most things MS does (lock out competition and more), 
the .NET library is very nice to work with and mono is keeping up nicely.

That being said, the Mono roadmap was one of the clearest development 
paths that I've seen, listing every function/class/documentation/etc.
(http://mono.ximian.com/class-status/mono-HEAD-vs-fx-2/index.html) that 
needed to be implemented and listed the status of each. Not to mention 
the site is very clean and the documentation is very easy to read (I 
haven't found Java or D to be as nice). I'd say Mono has a fabulous 
roadmap that is very inspiring. I could only hope that the D community 
could come up with something half as good.

Lucas