What's the current state of D?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon May 11 18:50:20 PDT 2009


Ameer Armaly wrote:
> I see. What about the actual "standard library bits" for common tasks like 
> file I/O, strings, date and time, filesystem manipulation, etc. My main 
> gripe is having two regularly accepted libraries that do the same extremely 
> common functions; it makes us look unpolished, especially when there is the 
> "community" versus "official" difference I mentioned earlier. Why not just 
> merge the two libraries into the one D standard library and be done with it?

That's being done for D2. It is not for D1, as that would break 
everyone's code.



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