More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 17:57:11 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> As I said before, dub has never even occurred to me. No windows 
> user
> is likely to naturally think to use a package manager :/
> It's sitting in my phobos fork. Isn't that where everyone keeps 
> their
> developments?
>
> If people are pushing dub, then it should really be installed 
> with DMD.

DUB should feel pretty natural on any operating system if you are 
a Python (PyPi), Ruby (Gems), JavaScript (NPM), Perl (CPAN), or 
PHP (PEAR) programmer. Although PyPi I know doesn't work as well 
on Windows. (It doesn't explain to you clearly how to install an 
MSVC compiler for PIP and what not.) I think it would be healthy 
to host supplementary modules first with DUB as third party 
modules, and then get them merged into Phobos after they have 
seen some real world use. That's sure to result in a faster 
turnaround time for going from experimentation to real usage.