Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jarrod wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:52:19 -0500, Daniel wrote:
> 
>> Walter is, and ought to be, focusing his efforts on the language more
>> than the libraries.
>> 
>> Oddly, I would argue that all libraries are simply stop-gap fixes for
>> missing or poorly implemented language features; indeed most programming
>> code tends to be.
>> 
>> However, D has phobos, there was mango, now tango, and work has been
>> done on a tangobos.  The fact that the library keeps changing shows that
>> D's language features actually have an impact, as they frequently
>> replace or integrate library features.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dan
> 
> To claim Phobos is not a part of D is to claim the C stdlib is not a part
> of C.
> Phobos is a part of D, and it's a very important part of D too (hell we
> can't even have classes without Object.d). Walter is the father of Phobos
> and although he allows others to contribute to it, he is the one who
> decides what to add to Phobos and how to add it. Yes, Walter should focus
> on developing the language of course, but he also has to decide what the
> *standard* library is going to be since he is after all the head project
> manager of both Phobos and D.
> I emphasize the word *standard* because right now, we don't have a
> standard. Unless you include a bunch of versioning/mixin hacks, we
> currently have code that won't even compile on different workstations
> because of two very different core libraries that are totally
> incompatible. So now we're stuck with an annoying rift.
> Tangobos is a step in the right direction to get compatibility back, but
> at the moment it's just a band-aid solution.
> 
> All I want to see is a standard, be it Phobos with all the cool stuff
> Tango adds, or a Tango with all the nice things Phobos has. But this
> isn't going to happen unless one of the dev teams concedes already :|

More curiosity from me, what in Phobos do you consider cool, and at the same
time miss in Tango?

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango