If D becomes a failure, what's the key reason, do you think?

[Walter Bright]

Don Clugston wrote:
> IMHO, the lack of details about 1.0 is the biggest problem. In 
> particular, the uncertainty about the level of support we can expect for 
> implicit function template instantiation makes template library 
> development difficult.

Right now, the lack of partial specialization support in the ifti in D 
is a bug. It is intended that it work just like in C++.

So the question I have is, does D 1.0 have to be bug-free? I don't think 
  so.