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[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 18 June 2016 at 10:25:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> [...]
> I've given them a list, and they did something else, every time.
>
> Off the top of my head, work items for phobos I've repeatedly 
> posted in various forms:
> [...]

People actually have been working on a lot of the stuff in your 
list.

The sweeping Phobos-wide tasks like cutting back on GC use, 
making more stuff `@safe`, improving the docs, etc. is getting 
worked on all the time. No one is going to go and convert the 
entirety of Phobos in one fell swoop, because Phobos is huge and 
there is no individual who has the domain knowledge required to 
work on every part of it.

Nevertheless, there has been steady progress on those tasks 
because whenever people work on some part of Phobos (for whatever 
reason), they tend to also do some general cleanup while they're 
at it. (This is hindered by the insistence upon splitting work 
into many small pull requests, though.)

As for the big module ideas - people have discussed work already 
in progress toward a better `std.xml` and a GPU compute library 
both here on the forums, and (in the case of the latter) in a 
talk at the most recent DConf.

There are specific reasons, aired in the discussions, as to why 
people may not be interested in working on BigDecimal (perceived 
as being of importance mainly to the finance industry, who is 
unlikely to contribute anything back in return) or removing auto 
decode (what's the point, when Andrei is emphatic that the 
feature itself cannot ever be deprecated?). Even so, those 
discussions were very recent; it is quite possible that someone 
around here intends to work on them (or already is) and just 
hasn't got far enough to want feedback yet.