Vision for the first semester of 2016

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 11:25:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> As you yourself have mentioned, the size of the D community as 
> it stands today presents some impediment to the possible 
> maintenance and stability of alternative libraries.  If 
> something is in Phobos you know that you can depend on it, that 
> bugs will get fixed, and that changes to the language won't 
> stop the code from compiling (since it will be fixed).


On the other hand, Phobos is so tightly coupled to dmd that if 
you want a Phobos bugfix, you might also be stuck with a dmd 
regression and get nowhere.

Moreover, Phobos doesn't really get all that many bug fixes. It 
lags on the release cycle and a few modules are basically just 
abandoned. Third party alternatives have been available the whole 
time though.

> The bus factor is high for external libraries - people get 
> sick, divorced, change interest, and so on.

But there's nothing stopping you from forking it yourself...