Status of std.container rewrite?

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On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 18:39:22 UTC, Rahul Gupta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Sorry, if i posted to wrong forum)
>
> I am new to D, just started learning a few days back. I have 
> been writing small programs to learn D, some of which require 
> use of containers.
>
> Looking at std.containers I see that it is very barebones and 
> generally requires a lot of efforts to use. Googling around 
> brings me to stuff posted around 2015-16 that says that 
> std.container is pending a rewrite. However it is 2020 now and 
> std.container has still not improved.
>
> Has any progress made towards the rewrite? Is it at design 
> stage or being developed or has it been forgotten? Is there any 
> timeline for the std.containers rewrite?

The latest effort was 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2760, but it stalled as no 
consensus was reached on how the reference-counting should be 
done.