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

[Georg Wrede]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Kyle Furlong wrote:
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>>> *Standing Ovation*
>>
>>
>> Yeah, that's concerned me as well. But it isn't just me trying to make 
>> it perfect, everyone's got their favorite bug/feature that must get in 
>> before 1.0.
>>
>> So what do you say we just call D right now *1.0* and move on? It's 
>> not like D will stop undergoing improvements.
> 
> 
> I think it's a two-step process. My opinion:
> Announce a 1.0 feature freeze immediately. Don't actually announce DMD 
> 1.0 until the regressions related to protection are fixed. A 1.0 
> announcement is a major public relations opportunity (one of the biggest 
> the language will get), it's important to avoid a PR disaster. But 
> internally, we can view 0.162 as DMD 1.0 RC1.

Precisely!