Status of std.container rewrite?

[aberba]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 19:49:48 UTC, Seb wrote:
> 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.


The technically of the community is both a blessing and a curse. 
Part of why most things never end up in upstream. std_data_json, 
dxml, ...?? A perfect solution that never comes.

Dub was bashed so many times now its what we~ all use.

Something is definitely broken in decision making around tools 
and ecosystem improvement.