When will D1 be finished?

[Ary Borenszweig]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Ary Borenszweig (ary at esperanto.org.ar)'s article
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> All this D2 work seems to have detracted from the task of finishing off D1.
>>>
>>> There are 15 issues nominated as d1.0blocker, of which 7* are still
>>> outstanding, including two trackers having 39 dependencies between them.
>>>
>>> * Well, 8 if you include 691, fixed only for D2.
>>>
>>>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=d1.0blocker
>>>
>>> While none of these nominations were ever answered, I think most would
>>> agree that being finished means, at the least:
>>>
>>> (a) having a spec that the public agrees to be complete and consistent
>>> (b) all language features implemented
>>> (c) all of the most serious known bugs and most of the others fixed
>>>
>>> 677 and 690 are shortcomings in department (a). (OK, 690 seems to be
>>> almost fixed now, but I'm not sure.)  302 is a failure under (b).  While
>>> it's otherwise hard to lay hands on anything particular as why (c) is
>>> yet to be achieved, that just over 2/3 of 340's dependencies are still
>>> open at least says something.
>>>
>>> This leaves 317 and 342, which are filed as enhancement requests, but
>>> which people felt important enough that they ought to be in the initial
>>> D1 distribution.  342 is straightforward and, while 317 is a much bigger
>>> task, at least it has progressed (albeit slowly).
>>>
>>> But generally, it's about time D1 got a move on....
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm made to wonder whether, if 1.0 had been held back until it could be
>>> a practical rather than just symbolic milestone, it would be at both by
>>> now.
>>>
>>> I've just thought, given this brief inconclusive discussion
>>> http://tinyurl.com/qayz9w
>>> ...when we reach this practical milestone, maybe we could call it D 1.1?
>>>
>>> Stewart.
>> I think the major problem with this is that D2 has the same codebase as
>> D1, so D2 will inherit most of it's bug, like forward references.
>> Anyone wants to start an open source project to make a new front-end for
>> D1? :)
> 
> This one is interesting and looks reasonably active:: http://code.google.com/p/dil/
> 
> It's a D1 front end written in D, and looks reasonably active.  It also solves
> another problem:  Although it's not a particularly urgent thing, eventually D
> compilers should be written in D.  First, it would be one less things for skeptics
> to complain about.

Cool! I thought all of the D compilers were using DMD's front-end. I'll 
take a look at it and try to help.