Oh Dear

[Lutger]

Steve Teale wrote:

> D Friends/Enemies,
> 
> Looking at the current crop of postings, it seems like people are staying
> off the subject of where D is going (we've had a lot of that lately,
> without any result), and concentrating on less and less important
> particulars.
> 
> So we are we doomed, like the Oomigooly bird, to fly around in ever
> decreasing circles, until we eventually disappear up our own asshole?
> 
> As per the current fashion, I apologize profusely for any offense I may
> cause to anyone as a result of this message. But we do need to arrive at
> conclusions. D2 should be stabilized and D1 deprecated, there should be
> one standard library, there should be a new linker and object file format,
> and there should be a change made to the acceptable content of the primary
> newsgroup (the learn suggestion is the best we have so far).
> 
> Steve

Again, what's up with the doom and gloom people? We just had a very good D 
release, lots of bugs fixed and some lovely new features. Happy days!

You are not asking the right questions I think. There *is* 1 standard 
library for D2 which is phobos and could be complemented with Tango if it  
will be ported to D2. But D1 is stable where D2 is in development and Tango 
the library of choice for many. I see no problems here. 

D2 will be stabilized as planned, current date is set for november this year 
already! (Way too soon, probably). The question is, HOW will it be 
stabilized (D3 backwards compatible with D2?) But come on, take a look at 
the changelog for example to see how fast D is developing, which platforms 
DMD already support, look at LDC becoming awesome, Descent's power, full D 
support in slickedit, GtkD, QtD etc. etc.  

What exactly do you expect? Replacing C++/C# within the next year?