What's the current state of D?

[Steve Teale]

BCS Wrote:

> Hello Ameer,
> 
> > Hi all.
> > When I last used D a couple years ago, 2.0 was the experimental branch and
> > 1.0 was stable.
> 
> still true
> 
> > Now that I have a little time on my hands I'm wondering:
> > what is the current landscape? Is 2.0 approaching any sort of stability?
> 
> the const system is stable and now it's starting to play with threading
> 
> > Are
> > there still two competing runtime libraries or have they been merged?
> 
> No not for 1.0 (and they never will be) but /when/ Tango gets ported to 2.0 
> they will coexist.
> 
> > Basically I want to know if it's worth using 2.0 for anything of
> > importance
> > or is it still in flux?
> 
> Don't use it for bet-the-bank code. Use it for, fun-n-games code. Between 
> them, it's up to you.
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Ameer
> > 
> 

This is the sort of answer that will kill D. The guy comes back after 2 years, asks a straight question, and get's told "business as usual, we're still arguing among ourselves about what it should be".

Maybe Tiobe is right! Lots of others may not even bother to ask. They just visit the newsgroup, read a page of it, and conclude "same old, same old", and go away.

D should be D, not maybe 1.043, or let's wait a while and see what happens with D2. Potential real users hate uncertainty. If they are going to commit, then D must do so too.