On 13-01-06 9:41 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/6/2013 6:15 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
So, given that enhancements are identified in Bugzilla, is there a review
process? Are ticket priorities and vote used? Who decides what is
the priority
of an enhancement? Who assigns them?
Pretty much anyone who wants to take one of them on does so and when
done, issues a pull request for it. At that point, there's a general
discussion of it and a decision is reached, usually by consensus.
Also, given that view on the development of D, what is the position on
the
evolution of the language in context with backward compatibility and
stability? How can an organization of D users that are not also D
developers
can plan a project and use D for it?
Do you consider D stable enough for outside users/organizations to
start using
it in their own projects?
Yes, and it is used heavily for commercial purposes by at least a couple
companies.
Like any other language, if you insist on using the latest feature and
pushing it to the limit, you are more likely to run into problems than
if you are a bit more modest in your use of it.
Understood, that's pretty much always the case for any programming
language. Now, for someone from the outside, how would someone know
what are the latest features?
Would it be possible to identify the version number where a particular
feature has been introduced in the Language Reference? If not, since
this is DDoc based, is it possible for someone to go back in the github
repo file history to identify what was added in the Language Reference
files between release to releases and document this somehow?
That said, we make a large effort to fix all regressions upon each
release, and I push hard to avoid making breaking changes to the
language unless it is really unavoidable.
And I can imagine it's a lot of work...
--
/Pierre Rouleau
