All this talk about finalising D2 makes me worried

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Steven
Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:30 -0400, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> With apologies to Bruno Medeiros....
>>
>> All this talk about getting D2 finished (and other things like what comes
>> next) makes me worried. People talk as if D2 is nearing completion: there
>> are even threads about the coming or even requesting the release of the
>> finished product that D2 will be.
>>
>> For a start, finishing D1 off has to come first.
>
> What bugs in D1 are fixed in D2?  I think Walter is fixing D1 and D2 bugs in
> parallel.
>
> I think the expectation that D2 will be released soon is because of Andrei's
> book.  I didn't search for the thread where he said the date, and
> specifically that D2 should be finished by the time the book is released,
> but I recall it being sometime this year.
>
> In any case, I highly doubt that D2 will be "finished" by the time the book
> is released.  Things are in such a state of flux, and there are so many
> planned, but unimplemented, features, especially surrounding pure functions
> and multithreading.  I would guess that D2 would be in a feature freeze
> mode, even if some of the features aren't even implemented, kind of like
> contracts are for D1.  If that's the case, then it leaves the door open to
> implement those features (and for edition 2 of the book!), even though D2 is
> "finished".

Well D1.0 was pretty much an arbitrary line in the sand.
D2.0release (or whatever they decide to call it) might as well be too.

--bb