How much time will D1 be around?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:

> Now that D2 is being developed, I don't know how much time it will take
> until it is finished. Once it is, what will happen to D1? Will anyone
> still use it?

I am sure quite many will - not everyone like all the new features. Also it is far from trivial to port larger programs/libraries to D2, meaning that it will take time, and if the D1 version is meant to be supported in the same time frame, it will take even longer. Just because of this it'll probably take a year or two even if everyone want to switch.

Furthermore, that DMD supports D2 isn't enough to say that all tools supports D2, and so from the point D2 goes stable, it will be quite some time before all/relevant tools are stable.

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