On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 12:59:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 15:49:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
resolution. How about providing it as a separate compiler build
I feel like dropping D1 was not such a good move. Especially if full ABI compatibility with D2, people could have chose to write some of the less critical modules of their software in D2 (along with the enthusiasm of discovery), while still having a stable&non-experimental compiler for the really critical things.
Then, D1 would have become D1.5 by integrating the D2 time-proven features etc., just as D2 could become D2.5.
Is too late (or undesired) to resurrect D1 in maintenance mode? It is a bit strange that one of the most successful stories of D (Sociomantic) uses D1, still the compiler is ignored and everybody seems pretending that is a D (D2) success story.
