> How many people are working on this port? How many people will be interested > in using it, considering that a direct port won't use many of D2's features > (why not just use D1)? Will this port be around in 1 year? 5 years? Will it > have the same kind of momentum as the original D1 version, with as many > developers working on it, fixing bugs etc.? Will the API always stay in sync > with the developments in the original D1 version? What about all the > existing documentation, tutorials, even book(s)? There aren't a lot of additions to D1 Tango nowadays, partly because people seems to have other things to do, partly because most of it works pretty nice already.
That said, I think the D2-version of Tango will be a one-time fork. Regarding how many people are working on the D2-fork, I think it's quite few (AFAICT only Marenz). The general consensus in Tango have been to wait on D2 to be "finalized" before investing effort into porting. > Sorry, having more options is a good thing, but I think there is a lot more > to a real "Tango for D2" than just someone fixing the code so it compiles > and works. Agreed, but it doesn't all have to happen at day1. Just being able to port Tango-apps over to D2 with minimal fuzz would is valuable in itself. Anyways, IMHO I think one of the most important advances in D2, is the separation of runtime from system-library, such that Phobos and Tango can co-exist more easily, reducing fragmentation.
