D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Walter Bright]

On 12/12/2011 10:26 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:57:02 +0000, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>
>> I haven't used D1 for a long time so I can't claim a bad choice here.
>
> Actually I think I can state an opinion here. The two things that stand
> out in my mind are.
>
> * There has been a statement of supporting D1 while it is in use (or at
> least has a decent number of users). Maybe there aren't any, I don't see
> replies claiming such.

There don't seem to be many anymore.


> * One argument against dropping it was that the bugs were common between
> both languages, so the effort isn't that great to maintain both. Did that
> change with the increase in issues being fixed?

Not really, but the code bases steadily diverge and it's getting steadily 
harder. It was more a matter of focus.