Is D 0.163 D 1.0?

[Peter C. Chapin]

Reiner Pope wrote:

> Not trying to be too argumentative here, but I obviously disagree with 
> what you said, otherwise I wouldn't have said it in the first place. The 
> problem is that the more *big* releases you make, the less interest 
> people take in the language, so it's a good idea too catch their 
> interest from the start. I disagree that "1.0" means first cut, because 
> in many OSS projects (which D effectively is), version numbers don't get 
> to 2.0 or beyond. IMHO it really means, "we've got a complete product 
> now, you should have no problems with it."

I guess it depends on how one looks at these things.

Designing a library that works well takes time and, ideally, lots of 
real world experience with prototypes. It's hard to accumulate that 
experience, it seems to me, before the language has stablized. Requiring 
D v1.0 to be a stable language *and* to have an extensive library might 
take more time than would be good (although, honestly, I'm not that 
familiar with the extent of what's available right now in the way of D 
libraries). Long delays before a 1.0 release might turn some people off 
as well.

Peter