Phobos vs Tango! What's your opinion?

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Apr 17 17:46:49 PDT 2007


Gregor Richards wrote:
> Bradley Smith wrote:
>> Dan wrote:
>>> Fortunately, we have both libraries available for D, and I think the 
>>> duality is definitely conducive to the language's development.  I can 
>>> also say that it hasn't been a problem by virtue of the fact that a 
>>> program may use *either* library *or* both according to your 
>>> preferences.
>>
>> Both? How do you use both Phobos and Tango in one program? I thought 
>> they were incompatible.
> 
> At their core, they are incompatible, because their implementations of 
> Object and such are incompatible.
> 
> There is an almost-existent library, tangobos, that allows most Phobos 
> software to compile over Tango. I'm going to get that released properly 
> Any Day Now [tm]. (It exists, but I'm very busy today, don't have time 
> to do everything)
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Tangobos will be great.  Can't wait.
How are you going to deal with toString/toUtf8?

--bb




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