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Seriously, no body do a little research before naming his public projects to see if some other public project had the same name that are you about to use ?

I'm talking about that D , aka D2, aka DLang has been using this name for a lot of years. This would create a lot of awful confusion!

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is D2 another name for the D language? there is also a D3 project

Yes D2 is what current D version used to be called when D1 was still around, about 10 years ago.

D3 is the mythical version that would fix all D shortcomings, keeps being talked about when we have those long community rants, but that is about it, there is no project going on.

In many peoples interpretation D3 will be https://d3js.org/.

It's fine in that case since that's a framework and not a language.

Even If no body name it now as "D2", creating a totally unrelated project called "D2Lang" would generate a lot of confusion with D and "Dlang"

Maybe people should stop naming things after single letters in the alphabet? Just an "out there" idea, I know.

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