On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:48:46 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Markus Koskimies wrote:
>> Personally, I like D. Otherwise I would not be posting here. Professionally, I can only suggest D for freetime activities. It is not about the superiority of the language spec; it is about having a stable environment to build things.
> 
> I don't know really what you're asking for. Is it to have a D compiler that anyone can modify and try new things out, or is it a stable compiler that only gets bug fixes?

Not a compiler, that anyone can modify :D With stable I mean other things than releases containing only bugfixes; like I posted before, I have had big difficulties to get my earlier D programs being compiled in my one- week-old 64-bit Linux machine.

The stability I mean is probably not the issue in the next few years. If I can hope something, I would like to see DMD, GDC, Phobos and Tango to get closer each other. They are not competitors to each other; the success of D is up to the number of users it has.