@Ericson2314, yeah thnaks for bringing this up. As was mentioned elsewhere:

* CID is finished and live in go-ipfs@master and js-ipfs@master. We haven't announced it widely because go-ipfs@0.4.5 is still to land. (ooof)

* IPLD spec needs work, but work continues.

I wanted to add that:

* please contribute to CID to get it where you need it to be.

* i am personally very interested in defining IPLD data structures and their operations in a good language. This will probably be transpiled to the IPFS impl language, or compiled down to WebAssembly and run in a small WA VM (the web of datastructures)