On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 01:17:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Hello, > > > Walter and I have been mulling for a while on a vision for the first six months of 2015. > > http:// wiki.dl ang.org/ Vision/2015H1 > > This is stuff we consider important for D going forward and plan to work actively on. We encourage the D community to focus contributions along the same lines. > > We intentionally kept the document short and high-level as opposed to discussing tactical details. Such discussions are encouraged in the appropriate forums. Hello,Walter and I have been mulling for a while on a vision for the first six months of 2015.This is stuff we consider important for D going forward and plan to work actively on. We encourage the D community to focus contributions along the same lines.We intentionally kept the document short and high-level as opposed to discussing tactical details. Such discussions are encouraged in the appropriate forums. http:// forum. dlang.org/ post/ m8bt6s$1s86$1@ digital mars.com Moving the dmd frontend to D would help encourage contribution, one of the explicit goals in the vision statement, and would help keep the C++ support up to date, as the backends will stay C++. I wish there had been some mention of mobile. Recent news was that 1 billion Android smartphones were sold last year: that dwarfs the 316 million PCs sold, a number that keeps declining. That doesn't even include the two hundred million tablets sold last year. Right now, there's two people working on Android support and one person on iOS support. Even Android has moved to Ahead-Of-Time compilation with Lollipop. Mobile is a giant opportunity for native languages, one D cannot afford to miss.