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* We've improved the core language and standard library, with a focus on quality.
 
* We've improved the core language and standard library, with a focus on quality.
  
* [http://goo.gl/mM4Ofj 1539 pull requests] created (1472 closed, 67 still open). Compare with [http://goo.gl/DyqH8v 1546 in H1] (1516+30 respectively). Closing rate: [http://goo.gl/CLr7a0 1565 in H2] vs. [http://goo.gl/PB88VD 1547 in H1]. The halves have been roughly equal in terms of github participation.
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* [https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+user%3AD-Programming-Language+created%3A2014-07-01..2014-12-31 1539 pull requests] created (1472 closed, 67 still open). Compare with [https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+user%3AD-Programming-Language+created%3A2014-01-01..2014-06-30 1546 in H1] (1516+30 respectively). The halves have been roughly equal in terms of github participation.
  
* Adoption has continued to increase through H2. Daily 28-days moving average downloads: 524.393 on 2013/12/31, 700.54 on 2014/06/30, and 1226.64 on 2014/12/31. [http://goo.gl/Pm1Syl See chart].
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* Adoption has continued to increase through H2. Daily 28-days moving average downloads: 524.393 on 2013/12/31, 700.54 on 2014/06/30, and 1226.64 on 2014/12/31. [http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png See chart].
  
 
* DConf 2014 has been a success.
 
* DConf 2014 has been a success.

Revision as of 01:04, 1 February 2015

Meta

This document discusses high-level vision for D. It is revised every six months (January and July of every year). This (2015H1) is the first instance of the vision document.

Progress in H2 2014

  • We've improved the core language and standard library, with a focus on quality.
  • 1539 pull requests created (1472 closed, 67 still open). Compare with 1546 in H1 (1516+30 respectively). The halves have been roughly equal in terms of github participation.
  • Adoption has continued to increase through H2. Daily 28-days moving average downloads: 524.393 on 2013/12/31, 700.54 on 2014/06/30, and 1226.64 on 2014/12/31. See chart.
  • DConf 2014 has been a success.

H1 2015 Priorities

  • Improving our brand

We aim to improve the brand of the D programming language. Part of that is raising the quality of all D-related materials: website, documentation, tutorials, reference, wiki, forums, etc. "This Week in D" is a related new initiative we plan to continue promoting. DConf 2015 is the premier event of the community. Regional meetups are also important for branding: London, Berlin, Silicon Valley.

  • Improving participation

Closing related to brand improvement, we plan to foster broader participation to the use and improvement of D.

  • Create the D Language Foundation

We aim to create a foundation that promotes understanding and adoption of the D programming language.

  • Improve language stability

Define appropriately fuzzily-defined areas of the language (e.g. shared semantics, @property). Foster library additions over language changes, and raise the bar on language changes.

  • Emphasize vibe.d

vibe.d is a comprehensive approach to Web development written in D that is approaching maturity. We aim to raise its importance and relevance to D development: offer bundled installation with dmd, release in lockstep, make working with vibe.d an acceptance criterion for dmd release. Essentially we aim at making vibe.d a major story of D and the leading sample application distributed with dmd.

  • Memory Management

We aim to improve D's handling of memory. That includes improving the garbage collector itself and also making D eminently usable with limited or no use of tracing garbage collection. We aim to make the standard library usable in its entirety without a garbage collector. Safe code should not require the presence of a garbage collector. Our aim is to top 2000 pull requests by June 30, 2015.

  • Safety

We believe safety is an important aspect of language design, and we plan to continue building on the @safe/@trusted/@system troika.

  • C++ integration

Seamless integration with C and C++ is an essential competitive advantage of D. We aim to support significant C++ standard library interoperability by mid-2015 and full interoperability on at least one platform by end of 2015.

  • Quality

Quality of implementation (both language, standard library, and ecosystem) remains an overall goal.

  • Foster additions to the standard library and third-party libraries

We prefer adding new components to the standard library over refactorings and reorganizations of those that work (barring bug fixes). Our vision is to foster a large standard library complemented by a strong battery of third-party libraries. Aspects like Networking, concurrent/parallel/distributed programming, and database connectivity are of interest to placing in the standard library.