"Ary Borenszweig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 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 > > 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. >
I find IDE's to be extremely helpful programming tools. But then again, I also find Eclipse to be more trouble than it's worth (for reasons that people are probably tired of hearing me yammer on about ;) ). > 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". > I don't know about anyone else, but for me, I plan to switch to D2. I suppose I might switch back to D1 if I end up *really* not liking all the const/immutable/etc stuff after using D2, but I don't think that will happen. That is an interesting question though, about overall satisfaction level with some of D2's bigger changes. > What do you think about all this? > > Thanks, > Ary
