Phobos is now on dsource

[Alexander Panek]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:52:50 -0500
"Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin at sover.net> wrote:

> 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.

That doesn't quite answer my question, let me rephrase: why do you
think Phobos will ever be developed in that direction?

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Alexander Panek <alexander.panek at brainsware.org>