How much time will D1 be around?

[Jason House]

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 switched last week, but still consider D2 Tango a requirement for my prolonged use of D2.

 
> I ask this because from time to time I like to add new features to 
> Descent to improve D1 support. Semantic analysis is pretty done for D1, 
> except for some bugs that are hard to fix, or at least take a lot of 
> time. :-P

I downloaded Descent last night.

 
> For D2, there's still missing a lot of semantic analysis porting from 
> DMD, and doing that is kind of boring (adding new features, that's fun). 
> But if I add features to D1 and it will be gone soon, what's the point? 
> Also, I feel that the great majority of the people here don't see an IDE 
> as a helpful programming tool.
> 
> But, in another point of view, I see a lot of big differences between D1 
> and D2. For instance, I don't like const/invariant, I don't care about 
> that, I never had bugs or trouble or performance problems because of 
> mutability problems, so I consider D1 easier to grasp. So I wonder if 
> anyone else thinks "No matter what will happen, I'll probably just stick 
> with D1".

So far, I haven't used the const keyword once in my D2 code. It may not be as people think it might be. 

> 
> What do you think about all this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ary