STEP UP PHOBOS DEVELOPMENT 10 FOLD

[Sean Fritz]

In article <e6vg3s$ll4$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Andrei Khropov says...

>> There's another problem. I don't "get" Phobos. If there's a thought behind
>> it, I don't get it. I read the "philosophy" on the D site, and agree with it,
>> but Phobos still looks like a bunch of random algorithms and patterns. For
>> this reason, I, for one, would much rather submit patches to Ares than to
>> Phobos.
>
>Maybe Walther should say what's his vision on what should be in the scope of
>Phobos.
>
>There're different approaches possible:
>
>1) Minimalistic C/C++ like - std lib contains only small set of necessary
>things. Everything else is available through 3rd party libs.
>
>2) Maximalistic Java/.NET like - std lib contains lots of stuff.

I think it's quite clear as a Java/.Net developer that extensive (perhaps
excessive) library support is a large part of the popularity.  It seems like a
good idea for new languages trying to be popular to provide similar libraries.

Sean
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>AKhropov