What's the current state of D?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri May 8 12:40:24 PDT 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> This sometimes makes me wonder if D1 and D2 are going to evolve into separate but
> related languages with separate niches at some point, something like Scheme vs.
> Common Lisp or C vs. C++.  D1, with its simplicity and the availability of Tango,
> seems well suited to be a Java++ kind of language.  D2, with its extremely
> powerful metaprogramming, greater complexity and the availability of Phobos2,
> seems more like a (C++0x)++.

D1, by definition, isn't going to evolve any more than C++98 is going to 
evolve.



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