Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Jan 18 07:12:00 PST 2009


John Reimer wrote:
> The danger, of course, is that Tango will not be taken seriously again 
> for D 2.0.  If Tango manages to garner the lion-share of popularity as 
> they did with D 1.0 (LDC compiler suite is one example of the 
> significant sway Tango has had on D 1.0 ), then I think I'm going to 
> just throw up my hands.  Yes, I think something has to be done: ignoring 
> Tango is not going to be a healthy option for D.  Either that or Phobos2 
> will have to be so good that people will drop Tango faster than they 
> would a red-hot frying pan.

Beware of the false choice. Ideally, Phobos2 will be so good, and Tango2 
will be so good, that people will enjoy using either or both together.

Andrei



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