On Sunday, December 11, 2011 14:56:50 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 12/10/11 3:19 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > [snip] > > I'm glad this message has been met with virtually no reaction! > Nevertheless, I reddit'ed it to announce the decision to the larger > community. > > http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/n8sit/d1_to_be_discontinued_on_dece > mber_31_2012_after/
Well, at this point, I expect that pretty much no one who only uses D1 and not D2 does much in this newsgroup, and anyone who only uses D2 is not going to have a problem with it. The only ones likely too make a fuss about it here would be those who use both, and since they use both presumably they're okay with this in the long run as long as D2 is up to snuff, and that situation has been steadily improving. Also, since the actual date is over a year off, there's plenty of time for things to improve quite a bit more. Not to mention, just because dmd1 won't be geting any more bug fixes doesn't mean that you can't use it anymore - and since it's on github, interested parties can always fork it. I'm still a bit surprised that pretty much no one has responded, but then again, you posted it only about 24 hours ago. So between that and the fact that most of the people around here focus on D2, I expect that the number of people who have would have read it and would be unhappy about it is rather limited. - Jonathan M Davis
