Tango vs Phobos

[Robert Fraser]

Benji Smith Wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
> > I see the D community heading for a split. One side will be D1 (hopefully a D 1.5) +tango, and the other side will be D2+phobos.  I don't think of this as a bad thing nessescarily, just two different directions.
> 
> That might be okay in an open source project, where the community can 
> just fork the project and go their separate ways. But my assumption is 
> that D1 will eventually be end-of-life'd, maybe when D3 eventually 
> arrives. What happens to the D1 people then? Especially given the 
> incompatibilities between D1 and D2. They won't be able to easily port 
> their code, and my assumption is that they'll just be screwed.
> 
> --benji

D1 is definitely not dead. LLVMDC only supports D1 and is soon to come
out. Dil... I'm not sure how alive it is, but that's D1-only, too. Most D 
projects/libraries right now are D1-only.