why a part of D community do not want go to D2 ?
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Wed Nov 10 18:04:08 PST 2010
On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 17:53:08 Andrew Wiley wrote:
> Well, my assumption was that Phobos 2 was pretty much complete. If more
> functionality is planned, then that's definitely a higher priority because
> long term, that's a much better solution than any supplemental library.
Goodness, no. Phobos is nowhere near complete. Whole modules such as std.json,
std.xml, and std.stream are planned for deprecation in favor of newer
implementations (which haven't been done yet). New modules are on the way - such
as std.datetime and std.parallelism. std.container has almost nothing in it -
SList and Array. It's supposed to get pretty much every container which would be
considered fairly standard, but those implementations haven't been completed
yet. std.algorithm continues to get tweaked all the time. Phobos is changing all
the time.
Phobos is way better than it was, but it's far from done. There's plenty of work
left to do on it. Eventually, what's there will likely stabilize to the point
that even its ABI won't generally change (except presumably for major releases
when necessary or when outright new functionality is added), but it's still in
quite a bit of flux. The general API isn't even yet stable (though a lot of it
doesn't change often). I fully expect that once Phobos is fully mature, it will
rival Tango in every respect. But there's still a lot of work to be done on it.
- Jonathan M Davis
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