When will D1 be finished?

[Georg Wrede]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wrede at iki.fi)'s article
>> Luís Marques wrote:
>>> I guess that's the point. Who currently thinks that D1 is
>>> production-ready, or is consistently getting there, and how long till it
>>> gets there?
>> Already *before* D1 I wrote a non-trivial application, that is still
>> used in the industry even as we speak.  I wrote it in straight, honest,
>> clean code, and had no problems. It runs two simultaneous tasks,
>> controls industry processing hardware through the parallell port, has a
>> command line language of its own, and it shows parameters of the process
>> on the screen in real time, using graphs and colors. And it writes logs
>> and output files as needed, at the same time.
>> D1 is production ready, IMHO, now. But for such a question, you should
>> define what production-ready means to you.
>> If it means having all GUI programming environments, comprehensive
>> libraries, etc., then even D2 won't get you there.
>> Why? That's because the day D2 is "released", this newsgroup will start
>> developing D3, and from that day on everyone will whine about all
>> attention going to D3. And all kids writing libraries and porting stuff,
>> obviously have to use the lastest version of D, or else their friends
>> will call them wussies.
> 
> One thing that would help is a roadmap of non-trivial breaking changes for D3
> if/when it is started.  By non-trivial, I mean breaking changes that require
> design changes rather than just mechanical things like search/replace.  That way,
> D2 code could be designed with the possibility of eventually porting to D3 in the
> back of the developer's mind rather than being caught completely off guard.

That day, there will not be a single person on Earth who knows such 
changes. Just like when we started on D2, nobody could have had any 
notion of how D2 looks today. And we still have an unpredictable amount 
of changes ahead of us in D2. For example, who can predict if Andrei or 
somebody else writes a post here that turns half of D2 on its head, and 
then we postpone everything to get that done. It's happened before, you 
know.