The great compromise of the D standard library

[Gregor Richards]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Ender KaShae wrote:
>> I have great misgivings over the divide among the D community between 
>> standard libriraries.  The contintion will no doubt eventually lead to 
>> a  schism reduce the reusibility of D code.  I suggest the following 
>> compromise:
>>
>> 1.) Phobos and Tango are combined into a single Standard library, as 
>> Phobos seems to be lower level, it would make sense for Tango to call 
>> Phobos functions and for alias's to be made between equivilent 
>> entities that exist in both libraries
> 
> I'll leave the remaining points to others, but I believe this assessment 
> is incorrect.  One could argue that Tango scales higher than Phobos, but 
> both are equivalent in terms of low-level coverage.  The design is 
> merely different.
> 
> 
> Sean

Also, although Sean is clearly too humble to say this, Tango's low-level 
core is superior by leaps and bounds.

  - Gregor Richards