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Is there a point in the D roadmap where we will see "Okay, D has enough features, let add some support to the language now" ? Because in my opinion D is for now just a language, a awesome one yes, but not yet a good environnement for developper.
You are missing some essential points. First of all features are not just "done": they have corner cases to be fixed, details to be improved, they need to be fully implemented, they need to become efficient, bugs need to be removed, new needs ask for new parts, there are new CPUs to support, new OSes, new vector extensions added to CPUs, and so on. So in the end the work for the core language developers never ends. Putting such developers at work on tools is not a good idea, because then no one does the essential work on the core language and they will often be newbies regarding tools. So it becomes a lose-lose situation. You can't stop the development of the core language to develop tools, it causes a disaster. Usually you have to build a language good enough that it attracts other people, that are willing to work on tools and external modules :-)
Bye, bearophile
