Whither Tango?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Bernard Helyer wrote:
>> On 19/02/10 13:13, retard wrote:
>>> It might help the badly split community if Tango developers started 
>>> their
>>> own fork of D.
>>
>> No, it wouldn't. A fork would *completely* split the community (and be 
>> disastrous IMO), not help it.
>
> I'm not sure.  Given that the damage is already done, if the Tango 
> community can break away and be programming in another language derived 
> from D, it might finally stop people complaining nonsensically that D has 
> two "standard" libraries.  Tango would be E's standard library, and Phobos 
> would remain D's.
>

With D1 it's a legitimate concern, but (if I understand druntime right) once 
Tango is ported, complaining about D2 having 2 std libs would be much like 
complaining about C++ having two or three (std c lib, STL, and boost). If 
that doesn't shut people up about "2 std libs", nothing will.