• Mike James (8/8) Jun 24 2010 Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the
• dsimcha (10/18) Jun 24 2010 The language per se is stabilized and in the debug phase. If you projec...
• Ankh (22/22) Jun 21 2010 In article , dsimcha@yahoo.com says...

"Mike James" <foo bar.com> writes:

Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the 
status of D2.
Have all the features added been settled and now D2 is in the debug phase?
Are all future releases now of D2 just going to be bug fixes?
Is it worthwhile to start a largish project in D2?
The website makes out D2 to be 'experimental and possible unstable' but with 
all the work being done on it (and the book) surely this has moved on now.

-=mike=- 

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

== Quote from Mike James (foo bar.com)'s article
 Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the
 status of D2.
 Have all the features added been settled and now D2 is in the debug phase?
 Are all future releases now of D2 just going to be bug fixes?
 Is it worthwhile to start a largish project in D2?
 The website makes out D2 to be 'experimental and possible unstable' but with
 all the work being done on it (and the book) surely this has moved on now.
 -=mike=-

The language per se is stabilized and in the debug phase.  If you project is a
library that won't have too many dependencies, the answer is yes, D2 is ready. 
On
the other hand, Phobos is still in a state of flux to some degree (though I
doubt
there will be many breaking changes, especially non-trivial ones).  Libraries
for
things like GUIs are even more in a state of flux.  Therefore, I don't recommend
writing a large-ish production application that needs to interact a lot with the
outside world through libraries in D2 yet.  A more self-contained but still
non-trivial application like a compiler, a command line utility, or a scientific
computing algorithm implementation, would be well suited to D2 as it stands now.

Ankh <IBuySpam spamforfree.com> writes:

In article <hvvsu1$1f37$1 digitalmars.com>, dsimcha yahoo.com says...
|
|== Quote from Mike James (foo bar.com)'s article
|> Now that TDPL has been published and is now out in the wild what is the
|> status of D2.
|> Have all the features added been settled and now D2 is in the debug phase?
|> Are all future releases now of D2 just going to be bug fixes?
|> Is it worthwhile to start a largish project in D2?
|> The website makes out D2 to be 'experimental and possible unstable' but with
|> all the work being done on it (and the book) surely this has moved on now.
|> -=mike=-
|
|The language per se is stabilized and in the debug phase.  If you project is a
|library that won't have too many dependencies, the answer is yes, D2 is ready.
 On
|the other hand, Phobos is still in a state of flux to some degree (though I
doubt
|there will be many breaking changes, especially non-trivial ones).  Libraries
for
|things like GUIs are even more in a state of flux.  Therefore, I don't
recommend
|writing a large-ish production application that needs to interact a lot with
the
|outside world through libraries in D2 yet.  A more self-contained but still
|non-trivial application like a compiler, a command line utility, or a
scientific
|computing algorithm implementation, would be well suited to D2 as it stands
now.

"Wrong answer" dimented. D was my fault.