D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-14 10:46, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/14/11 2:30 AM, Don wrote:
>> On 14.12.2011 05:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There is no abandonment. Also, where is that 50/50 estimate from? Just
>>> curious.
>>
>> The D2 community is definitely bigger than the D1 community. But how
>> much more?
>
> I presume it's quite a bit larger. But then both are small, and we're
> interested in the potential and the rate of adoption.
>
>> It's hard to be sure, but the Tango users used to be 75% of the
>> community, based on a few polls that were held, but they never had much
>> representation on the ng. I guess between half and 2/3 are gone now.
>
> That seems a reasonable assessment. Possibly even more left.
>
>> I don't think the entire D community is as big as it was back then
>> (based on number of public repositories).
>
> That is also entirely possible.
>
>> Additionally, the number of contributors, and level of activity, in
>> Tango, was higher than Phobos has ever had.
>
> Agreed.
>
> But this is all missing the mark - why would we cry over spilled milk.
> The point is assessing the state of affairs the minute before the
> announcement. How active was Tango? How active were the Tango forums?
> Where were other forums of the D1 community? In this day and age, I'd be
> hard-pressed to think of an active programming language community that
> has no online presence whatsoever.
>
> To add to that, there was no trickle of bug reports or pull requests for
> D1, although clearly D1 does have its bugs and issues. I haven't
> followed Tango closely, but if D1 had a large active community, Tango
> would receive a lot of attention from its users as it's the de facto
> standard library for D1. Yet the last post
> (http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/903) dates from
> March 30. The intervals between changes to the trunk
> (http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/changeset/5691/) are measured in
> months.

The forum has never been very active. Lately there hasn't been that much 
activity as it used to be but the if you look at the timeline, the last 
event was 7 days ago.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/timeline

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg