On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 20:36:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 15:30:40 Don Clugston wrote:
What is this D3 thing ????
As far as I can tell, 'D3' was invented by newcomers to the
forums.
I think that what it comes down to is that there are a variety
of people who
want features added or changed in D which are either not going
to happen
anytime soon or will never happen in D2 (especially if they're
major breaking
changes). So, they figure/hope that we'll have a new revision
of the language
where we'll be able to make breaking changes and then maybe the
changes that
they want will make it in then. After all, particularly from
the perspective
of a newbie, we already had D2 which changed a bunch of stuff
from D1, why
wouldn't we have D3 later on? And for folks who really want to
see changes
that aren't going to happen, the idea that we're going to have
another major
revision of the language which might make the changes that they
want sounds
really appealing.
I think that Walter and Andrei have made it fairly clear when
they've said
anything on the subject that there is no intention to make any
kind of D3
anytime soon and that if we do, it'll be years from now after
D2 is mature and
well-established, and it actually makes sense to do a new major
revision. But
I do think that you're right in that the very idea of a D3 was
created by
folks in the newsgroup. Walter and the other developers have
been focusing on
stabilizing D2 as _the_ version of the language, not finishing
it up so that
they can move onto D3. And the misconceptions about D1 that
you've pointed out
in the past probably just help contribute to the idea that
we'll have a D3 at
some point. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, but there's no point
in worrying
about it for years yet.
If anything, I would consider D3 an ideal, something to work
towards. And no it wouldn't be started or really worked on for at
10-15 years after D's mature and at Andrei's goal of having at
least a million users. And as stated before, if there [b]IS[/b]
going to be a D3 at any point it should have no problem calling
D2 code.
Course thinking of D3 now is kinda like thinking of flying cars
and how you want a flying car and you won't buy a car today until
it can fly... Back (in the 50-60's was it?) they thought we
would be having a flying car for every family and had these
really badly done animations of what they expected to see. I
don't see any flying cars outside of Hollywood. Best if we stick
in the present and deal with our problems now.
