On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:30 -0400, Stewart Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> With apologies to Bruno Medeiros.... >> >> All this talk about getting D2 finished (and other things like what comes >> next) makes me worried. People talk as if D2 is nearing completion: there >> are even threads about the coming or even requesting the release of the >> finished product that D2 will be. >> >> For a start, finishing D1 off has to come first. > > What bugs in D1 are fixed in D2? I think Walter is fixing D1 and D2 bugs in > parallel. > > I think the expectation that D2 will be released soon is because of Andrei's > book. I didn't search for the thread where he said the date, and > specifically that D2 should be finished by the time the book is released, > but I recall it being sometime this year. > > In any case, I highly doubt that D2 will be "finished" by the time the book > is released. Things are in such a state of flux, and there are so many > planned, but unimplemented, features, especially surrounding pure functions > and multithreading. I would guess that D2 would be in a feature freeze > mode, even if some of the features aren't even implemented, kind of like > contracts are for D1. If that's the case, then it leaves the door open to > implement those features (and for edition 2 of the book!), even though D2 is > "finished".
Well D1.0 was pretty much an arbitrary line in the sand. D2.0release (or whatever they decide to call it) might as well be too. --bb
