STL and Phobos

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 17:14:50 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 17:01:42 UTC, Dennis Ritchie 
> wrote:
>> Will the STL included in Phobos or is it impossible?
>
> STL won't be included in Phobos, at least as far as I know, but 
> I believe it should be possible to interface to parts of it 
> with extern(C++). To do it, you need to create names for every 
> part of an STL type, including the allocator. Walter discussed 
> all of this in a recent talk.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM
>
> It's really more for using existing C++ code which already uses 
> the STL. In terms of algorithms, D is already in a better shape 
> with std.algorithm. In terms of containers, you might find 
> Phobos lacking for the moment, but progress will accelerate 
> when Andrei's allocators are finally included in Phobos.

Thanks.