Brief report about the Tango Conference 2008 in Torun

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== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s
> D2 will in all likelihood adopt Sean's runtime. We only need to put in
> the adaptation work. I think Sean has done a tremendous contribution to
> the community.
> Andrei

Is the new model, then, going to become that Phobos and Tango are strictly
user-level libraries that both run on top of druntime and can therefore be
arbitrarily mixed and matched in code?

I think this would do wonders, not only for de-fragmenting the D community but for
the development of both libraries.  It seems that Phobos and Tango had been
converging to a degree in terms of feature set, etc., with lots of duplication of
effort.  This is likely because using them in the same code base had been mutually
exclusive, so everyone using one lib wanted that one killer feature from the
other.  Now, with mixing and matching supported, Phobos can just be what it was
designed to be, namely a compact standard library with only stuff that's very
general purpose and a more procedural and/or functional style, and Tango can be
what it was designed to be, a more Java-style standard library with just about
everything and a more OO style.