We need to enhance the standard library!

Brian via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 8 09:43:09 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 07:43:02 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 19:01:23 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
>> Almost every "standard" evolves (e.g. USB, 3GPP, etc) and are 
>> subject to change in subsequent releases. Stopping the 
>> progress is not a case in good standardization process.
>
> When I say "a good candidate for standardization", what I mean 
> is a standardization of an API and module design, not a 
> standardization in the traditional sense.
>
> It doesn't matter that a standard like HTTP2 will have a new 
> version (e.g. 2.1), what matters is the way in which the 
> programmer interacts with it and how that API is designed. If 
> there's no clear answer, e.g. urllib2 vs. requests, then that 
> probably shouldn't be included in the standard library. 
> Continuing with the urllib2 example, how many people do you 
> suppose use urllib2 over requests, which is the most popular 
> Python library by far? Despite this, the Python team is stuck 
> maintaining urllib2.

What's important is that no one goes to plan or organize what is 
needed.

Don't want a lot of D language users to help? Java/rust/golang 
has its own standard library, are users want to come out? D 
language developers where?


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