D Conference Tango Phobos

simax simax at gmx.net
Fri Sep 14 14:08:04 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter Wrote:


> The only thing I really use consistently from Phobos that I actually 
> *like* using is std.stdio.  The thought has occurred to me a few times 
> that Tango would be much more attractive to me if it only had writefln.

I absolutly agree.

> 
> I tried Tangobos but it states pretty clearly that it's not intended as 
> a long-term solution, and that you are expected to use it as a 
> transition crutch as you finish porting your code to pure Tango.  But I 
> don't *want* to get rid of my writefln's.  I *like* them.

I like it too. 

> 
> I thought maybe I was the only one with such irrational attachments, but 
> it seems I'm not alone.  :-)  If that's the case then hopefully someone 
> will make a port of std.stdio to Tango at some point.  That makes more 
> sense to me than everybody rolling their own as Sean suggests.
> 

This is only meaningful if tango replaces phobos. But i think many people like phobos. I prefer phobos as a lightweigt library and tango as extension.

Sin




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