A betterC modular standard library?

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 01:52:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 12/18/16 7:31 PM, Seb wrote:
>> tl:dr: Phobos is very bloated.
>
> How does the D standard library compare in size with some other 
> languages (C++, Rust, Go, Java, Python)?

C++ and Rust are the best from this list in terms of low level 
programming. They have smaller libraries comparing with D.

Go, Java, Python --- If I need a language like them I will you 
them, not D.

Go - awesome GC, commercially supported, easy to write your own 
libs
Java - awesome GC, commercially supported, Scala(!!!)
Python - awesome scripting, commercially supported

D - ??? awesome what ? What do we have better then Scala?

Performance? NO.
BRandomAccessRanges makes our performance less then C/C++.

Clean and clever API in standard library? NO.
We are placing our Range API whenever possible including RNGs. We 
have not a language standard for I/O. Half of Phobos is outdated 
to language standards.

Best generics? NO.
Scala is more powerful.

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What do we have awesome? Where D is the best?
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D is awesome for low-level system libraries in betterC mode.
(and small text processing routines)
This will make D great in other fields.
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>> Let's do something about it!
>
> I've said this several times, and it bears repeating. We want 
> to make D entirely pay-as-you go, and offer full support to 
> anyone working on it. The best "something" anyone can do about 
> it is do good engineering work in the D mainline.

National D Foundation Party.

> That will automatically benefit all users of the D language, 
> instead of balkanizing the community.

...

> Granted, the lure of the clean slate is strong, and more care 
> is needed to mind backwards compatibility, but that's where the 
> real impact is.
>
>
> Andrei

How Mir projects breaks backward compatibility ?

How proposed direction breaks backward compatibility?

Lets use other prefix for the new libraries. Mir uses `mir.` And 
allow Phobos to be a sandbox for C++ as it is now.

Ilya