Is it time for D1 to die of natural causes?

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a at a.a)'s article
> "Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message
> news:hvt27i$hd4$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > Now that Andrei's much anticipated publication of TDPL is out, is it time
> > that D1 should now perish?
> >
> > My personal feeling is that by cremating D1, time and effort can then be
> > better expended and focused on solidifying D2.
> >
> Other people brought up other issues with doing that, but I'll add this: D1
> users are primarily Tango users. And until Tango goes D2, those user's
> migration paths to D2 would be fairly large (certainly not impossible, but
> notably harder than it would really need to be).

Sometimes I feel like D1/Tango and D2/Phobos really should evolve as completely
separate languages.  D1/Tango feels very much like Java++, while D2/Phobos feels a
lot more like (C++)++.  If there's enough manpower for it, it'd be very
interesting to see how this would play out.