D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-14 00:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/13/11 3:00 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-12-13 20:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 17:47:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> If I recall correctly Walter has said he will continue to support D1
>>>> as long as there are users.
>>>
>>> Will you really be still using D1 one year from now? Even then, why
>>> would you need official ongoing support from DigitalMars so much?
>>
>> Well, I don't know. I don't think D2/Phobos is usable in its current
>> state.
>
> I think you're exaggerating a bit. At any rate, we sure know what to do
> to improve on that.

That's the problem, I'm tried of waiting. D1 and Tango is usable now.

>>> For some perspective: the move to GitHub was less than one year ago. I
>>> was actually surprised of this when I revisited D's history recently,
>>> since it felt like a lot longer. The relative amount of progress done in
>>> this year alone is staggering.
>>>
>>>> Apparently not, when Andrei really wants something he just decides
>>> without consulting the community.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but demanding that others spend their time to serve a minority
>>> when that time could be better spent to serve a majority seems rather
>>> selfish to me.
>>
>> I think it's selfish to decide for the hole community.
>
> Well the word "selfish" is not appropriate here because the decision
> does not bring me any benefit. Perhaps you meant "arrogant" or "conceited".
>
> I understand how you might see things that way, but please trust me on
> this one. It is the right thing do do, and the short-term difficulty
> will be greatly rewarded in the long run.

Probably, but as with the rest of the development of D2 everything 
happen to fast. TDPL was released without a compiler backing up all the 
features. Also no one knows what the correct behavior of a features is, 
what's in TDPL, what's in the compiler or what's in the spec.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg