Phobos is now on dsource

[Peter C. Chapin]

Alexander Panek wrote:

>> I honestly hope Phobos will remain what it is - a simple, core
>> library, and I hope it will not "evolve" into a huge framework of
>> JAVA API, or .NET 2 size.
> 
> I'm not sure what the cause of this "fear" is?

A large standard library bulks up the language (where by "language" I
mean the actual programming language plus its standard library
facilities). Such bulk is undesirable in places where it isn't needed,
such as embedded systems or other small scale environments. Since D
wants to be a systems programming language a huge, expansive *standard*
library seems incompatible with that positioning. At least it does to me.

Of course huge, expansive add-on libraries are a good thing to have as
well. I could even imagine a two-tiered standard library (core +
additional optional components). So I agree with the OP that a
relatively small core library is nice.

Peter