The status of D2

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Mon Jun 21 11:28:59 PDT 2010


In article <hvvsu1$1f37$1 at digitalmars.com>, dsimcha at yahoo.com says...
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|== Quote from Mike James (foo at bar.com)'s article
|> Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the
|> status of D2.
|> Have all the features added been settled and now D2 is in the debug phase?
|> Are all future releases now of D2 just going to be bug fixes?
|> Is it worthwhile to start a largish project in D2?
|> The website makes out D2 to be 'experimental and possible unstable' but with
|> all the work being done on it (and the book) surely this has moved on now.
|> -=mike=-
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|The language per se is stabilized and in the debug phase.  If you project is a
|library that won't have too many dependencies, the answer is yes, D2 is ready.  On
|the other hand, Phobos is still in a state of flux to some degree (though I doubt
|there will be many breaking changes, especially non-trivial ones).  Libraries for
|things like GUIs are even more in a state of flux.  Therefore, I don't recommend
|writing a large-ish production application that needs to interact a lot with the
|outside world through libraries in D2 yet.  A more self-contained but still
|non-trivial application like a compiler, a command line utility, or a scientific
|computing algorithm implementation, would be well suited to D2 as it stands now.

"Wrong answer" dimented. D was my fault.


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