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.
Bad quality
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One problem is the large amount of obsolete data (
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe )
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
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!
