Future plans

Vague plans:

• Extend the standard library. At the moment, you can import D library modules directly, but this doesn't really fit in with the style of the language.

• Move to LLVM, once LLVMDC has matured a bit (x86_64 support was missing from the garbage collector last time I checked). GCC adds a huge amount of bloat to the compiler because the distribution is a complete GCC distribution, with Delight support added. LLVM can be used as a library.

  Update 2009-07-05: LLVMDC now supports x86_84, but doesn't yet support D2.

• Get GTK integrated somehow, possibly using GTKD.

• Some kind of intelligent build system that works out what needs to be rebuilt by looking at the dependencies between modules.

• with will probably go away and be replaced by a Python-style with (similar to D's scope statement).

• The generator syntax may get replaced with a Python-style yield.

• Use more Tango features, once Tango supports D2. Tango's D2 branch doesn't compile with GDC at the moment (2008-09-28).

• Can we add stack-traces to exceptions?