Compile time iota

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/30/15 9:17 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 14:58:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/30/15 5:41 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>
>>> Leave the better part of this to freestanding libraries, they prosper
>>> much better.
>>>
>>> 14 database drivers
>>> http://code.dlang.org/?sort=updated&category=library.database
>>> 24 networking libraries
>>> http://code.dlang.org/?sort=updated&category=library.network
>>> 5 JSON libraries
>>> http://code.dlang.org/search?q=json
>>>
>>> A lot of them are quite good and it has become really simple to write a
>>> nice library that is well tested and documented.
>>> I try to maintain this library as state-of-the-art D project
>>> with dub, ddox, travis-ci and doveralls integration.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/MartinNowak/bloom
>>
>> I think we need to promote the best of the breed into the standard
>> library. -- Andrei
>
> Most of those are much better were they are.

Clearly this is a matter in which reasonable people can disagree. It is 
my opinion that more functionality in the standard library is the right 
strategy for D.

Andrei