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D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012
Dec 10, 2011
F i L
Dec 11, 2011
Jonathan M Davis
Dec 11, 2011
Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 11, 2011
Timon Gehr
Dec 11, 2011
Iain Buclaw
Dec 11, 2011
Adam Ruppe
Dec 11, 2011
Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 11, 2011
Jesse Phillips
Dec 13, 2011
Jesse Phillips
Dec 13, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 13, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 13, 2011
Bane
Dec 13, 2011
torhu
Dec 14, 2011
Gour
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 13, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 13, 2011
Mike James
Dec 13, 2011
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Dec 14, 2011
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Dec 12, 2011
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Dec 13, 2011
Don
Dec 14, 2011
Don
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Don
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Jacob Carlborg
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Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Robert Clipsham
Dec 14, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
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Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 14, 2011
Jakob Bornecrantz
Dec 14, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 15, 2011
Jakob Bornecrantz
Dec 15, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 15, 2011
Jonathan M Davis
Dec 15, 2011
Jakob Bornecrantz
Dec 15, 2011
Walter Bright
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Nick Sabalausky
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Jonathan M Davis
Dec 13, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
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Jonathan M Davis
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Walter Bright
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Jesse Phillips
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Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Jonathan M Davis
Dec 13, 2011
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Dec 13, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 13, 2011
Bane
Dec 15, 2011
Hans Uhlig
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Bane
Dec 16, 2011
Gour
Dec 14, 2011
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torhu
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Bane
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Vladimir Panteleev
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Nick Sabalausky
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Dec 13, 2011
Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 13, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 13, 2011
Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 13, 2011
bearophile
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Robert Clipsham
Dec 14, 2011
Nick Sabalausky
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
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Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Tango for D2 (Was: D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012)
Dec 13, 2011
dsimcha
Dec 13, 2011
Adam D. Ruppe
Dec 13, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 13, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Dec 14, 2011
Walter Bright
Dec 13, 2011
Jonathan M Davis
Dec 13, 2011
Jesse Phillips
Dec 14, 2011
Dejan Lekic
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Long Chang
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Jacob Carlborg
Dec 16, 2011
Hans Uhlig
Dec 15, 2011
bearophile
Dec 15, 2011
Timon Gehr
Dec 15, 2011
Timon Gehr
Dec 15, 2011
bearophile
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Timon Gehr
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Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2011
Damian Ziemba
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Nick Sabalausky
Dec 15, 2011
Mattbeui
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Walter Bright
Dec 16, 2011
Gour
Dec 16, 2011
Walter Bright
D branding (was Re: D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012)
Dec 16, 2011
Gour
December 10, 2011
Hello everyone,


This is the end of the year, a good time to look both back and forward. Walter and I have had a long discussion about our strategy going forth. But before that, let's take a quick look at this year.

By all accounts, 2011 has been a terrific year for D. There has been unprecedented growth in the community; the disreputation of a fragmented, balkanized community is finally becoming a matter of the past; the community flame wars that were the norm in the past have given way to constructive dialog; there's more interest and more talk about D in public and private events; TDPL has been selling steadily; D's brand and major position on the programming languages landscape have become recognizable to many programmers; and most importantly, the community contribution to the compiler and standard library design and implementation has blown off the most optimistic expectations.

Going forward, we want to focus on D's core strengths: expressiveness, modeling power, and efficiency. We believe D is a very compelling programming language of this era, and we want to substantiate that belief with equally compelling libraries and applications.

In order to increase focus and unity in the language, we are discontinuing support for D1 on December 31, 2012. That's more than one year away, which gives enough time to D1 users to migrate libraries and applications to D2.

Phasing D1 away will not only clarify our vision, but also free up considerable time to concentrate on D's two largest issues: (1) quality of compiler implementation and (2) breadth of the standard library. These two matters prevent users from fully tapping into all of D's core assets. They affect expressiveness because code that's supposed to work doesn't or necessitates ugly workarounds; they affect modeling power because bugs prevent full creative uses of the language, and lacuna in the standard library limit the "bricks" to use when building; and they affect efficiency because, evidently, a quality compiler and a good standard library are essential ingredients in writing efficient code.

Best wishes for the next year and hopefully many years to come to an awesome community. Let's continue working together to reach D's ambitious potential.


Thanks,

Andrei
December 10, 2011
Should have set the date to Dec 21st so D1's end would coincide with the end of the world in 2012 ;)

December 11, 2011
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_december_31_2012_after/


Andrei
December 11, 2011
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
December 11, 2011
On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:22:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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.

This raises a question: will the D1 compiler be made redistributable when it's discontinued?
December 11, 2011
On 12/11/2011 11:06 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:22:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This raises a question: will the D1 compiler be made redistributable
> when it's discontinued?

I think LDC/GDC are redistributable already?
December 11, 2011
Vladimir Panteleev Wrote:
> This raises a question: will the D1 compiler be made redistributable when it's discontinued?

Isn't it already licensed for redistribution by the Tango folks?

December 11, 2011
On 11 December 2011 22:20, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr@gmx.ch> wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 11:06 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:22:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> This raises a question: will the D1 compiler be made redistributable when it's discontinued?
>
>
> I think LDC/GDC are redistributable already?

I will keep support in tree.  There will be no future merge changes to the D1 library that is bundled with GDC however.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
December 11, 2011
On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 22:29:38 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> Vladimir Panteleev Wrote:
>> This raises a question: will the D1 compiler be made redistributable when it's discontinued?
>
> Isn't it already licensed for redistribution by the Tango folks?

Right, I forgot about that. That's nice, because the Tango project would be one of the parties most interested in keeping D1 alive.
December 11, 2011
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:19:02 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> ...
> In order to increase focus and unity in the language, we are
> discontinuing support for D1 on December 31, 2012. That's more than one
> year away, which gives enough time to D1 users to migrate libraries and
> applications to D2.

I find this an interesting choice. While a good portion of the community has moved over and libraries have supported both or just D2, this could result in another rift.

With this kind of choice it may be important to prioritize those issues found by the D1 users that are beginning their port.

I haven't used D1 for a long time so I can't claim a bad choice here.
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