Phobos 2

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/02/2017 01:43 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 09:14:14 UTC, qznc wrote:
> [...]
>> D has a painful history with two competing standard libraries. If you
>> seriously propose this path, I hope Andrei and Walter will publicly
>> and vehemently oppose it. Otherwise that ghost from the past becomes a
>> PR disaster for D.
> [...]
> 
> I think this is overreacting.  "Phobos 2" is not supposed to be a
> *competing* library, but, as I see it, more like an alpha version of the
> next "major iteration" of Phobos. The "next major version" with a brand
> new paradigm, if you will, as opposed to incremental changes to the
> "current major version".

A clean slate is alluring, and there are several things that can be done 
differently in Phobos, as there are in any project that's been around 
for a while. It may, however, be difficult to find enough people able 
and willing to take such a large project off the ground. There are 
plenty of great things that can be done with the standard library, 
ranging from the trivial - documentation, fixes of bugs triaged as 
"trivial" or "bootcamp" etc - to the most creative.

As an example, eliminating phobos' and druntime's reliance on "static 
this" would improve conviviality of D in mixed-language projects, but we 
have yet to find folks to do the work. To the best of my knowledge only 
David, Stanislav, and myself have been involved so far.


Andrei