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Helping the progress of D 
There are several things keeping D from "going mainstream" in many people's minds. Here, a collection of things that could be done to help push D along its way to becoming a more widely recognized and used language is presented.
This is not intended to be a list purely for speculation or for giving reasons why D isn't popular yet. This is intended to be a list for people who want to help D to progress to pick something and start helping.
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Compiler Support
There are those who believe D is not viable until there are several implementations that are working to their fullness (in other words, nearly fully up to date with the spec).
- DMD - The reference implementation, from Digital Mars (Win32 and X86 Linux)
- Needs better packaging (Windows installer, RPM package, Gentoo ebuild, etc.)
- convince Walter to make DMD redistributable so that installers can be made by third parties
- convince Walter to update the instructions at
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html - update D Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler when these happen
- GDC - A D front-end for GCC. A little dead. What can be done:
- Perhaps even add PPC Assembly one day...
- Remove stale old web information (2002!)
- A new web page (Anders said it, not me)
- Need a few hundred megs of space and lots of bandwidth (for GDC binaries), that's why... -- AndersFBjörklund
- Put the Mac binaries up at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcmac/
- Put the Win binaries up at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcwin/
- LDC - LLVM D compiler.
- Check their status
Debugging
- Debugging - There's not really any fully-functional debugging for D yet. What can be done:
- A GDB patch to support D demangling
- Demangler: http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/bindings/trunk/demangle.d
- Project: http://dsource.org/projects/gdb-patches/ (targets: GDB 5.3/6.3)
- Fix the line number bugs in DMD on Linux (just adding symbols for a few of the lines)
- A Windows debugger, or better support for Windows debuggers (I don't really know, I don't use Windows much...)
- DebugEnvironments has some information that might help.
Documentation
Libraries
- Improve runtime library (Phobos)
- Remove usage of printf from object.d
- Up-to-date library Documentation
- Wish List: Template Library (STL)
- Wish List: Widget Toolkit (GUI)
- Wish List: Database Bindings (SQL)
- Windows API bindings
This probably isn't very well thought-out, so hopefully some others will come and clean this page up and make it make more sense and lay it out better?
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