Status report, milestones, quality improvements?

[Peter Alexander]

On 16/03/11 1:13 AM, jasonw wrote:
> A lot of work is going on around D. However I can't really fit the pieces together to see how everything works.
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> Bad quality
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> One problem is the large amount of obsolete data ( http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe )
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> Dsource is The place for D projects...

dsource has become a bit of a graveyard since D2. I only go there to 
stay up to date with Derelict.

github seems to be building up its number of D project however.

https://github.com/languages/D


> Status reports
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>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/roadmap is empty. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/future.html is totally uninformative. This is a really terrible joke. Where is the list of incompatibilities between TDPL and DMD/LDC/GDC? Why don't libraries come with [alpha], [beta], [stable] tags. It's hard to choose between 5 different implementations if you need to ask personally from the authors via IRC. Take a look at:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Feature_Plan
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Extragear
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> Where is the status reports of feature proposals?

Comparing D to KDE is a bit unfair due to the disparity in manpower, but 
yes, documentation and direction are sorely missing from D. There's 
still no good tutorials and I think the reason for that is because of 
the poor documentation. No one knows how the language is supposed to 
work, so they can't write tutorials!