Ary Borenszweig Wrote: > Now that D2 is being developed, I don't know how much time it will take > until it is finished. Once it is, what will happen to D1? Will anyone > still use it?
I switched last week, but still consider D2 Tango a requirement for my prolonged use of D2. > I ask this because from time to time I like to add new features to > Descent to improve D1 support. Semantic analysis is pretty done for D1, > except for some bugs that are hard to fix, or at least take a lot of > time. :-P I downloaded Descent last night. > For D2, there's still missing a lot of semantic analysis porting from > DMD, and doing that is kind of boring (adding new features, that's fun). > But if I add features to D1 and it will be gone soon, what's the point? > Also, I feel that the great majority of the people here don't see an IDE > as a helpful programming tool. > > But, in another point of view, I see a lot of big differences between D1 > and D2. For instance, I don't like const/invariant, I don't care about > that, I never had bugs or trouble or performance problems because of > mutability problems, so I consider D1 easier to grasp. So I wonder if > anyone else thinks "No matter what will happen, I'll probably just stick > with D1". So far, I haven't used the const keyword once in my D2 code. It may not be as people think it might be. > > What do you think about all this? > > Thanks, > Ary
