Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Wed Jun 29 00:31:50 PDT 2011


On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:42:36 +0100, James Fisher wrote:

> BTW, the choice of stdlib is not obvious to the new user of the
> language, and the "just let it die" attitude makes things confusing. 
> This SO question from
> 09<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/693672/d-standard-library> (was
> the choice considered a non-issue then?) for instance recommends Tango.

It is unfortunate that this is still confusing new D users, because the 
choice is really simple:

If you want to use D1, use Tango.
If you want to use D2, use Phobos.

(That said, why anyone would still want to use D1 is beyond me.)

-Lars



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