Status of std.container rewrite?

[Avrina]

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 07:38:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> So Phobos not having stuff is probably just D being modern. Is 
> it in Dub, no
> idea but at least D has a central repository. Dub working with 
> DVCS as well as
> the central repository would be a good thing.

I've heard this argument before, it is a rather weak one. Even 
C++ and Rust have containers in their standard library, and 
that's in two languages that have a relatively small and modest 
standard library, though C++'s std lib continues to grow. 
Python's standard library is also rather huge, and of course also 
includes containers. D's standard library includes libcurl and 
some other's that is questionable whether it should have been 
included in the first place.

Part of the problem is that parts of Phobos aren't maintained 
anymore by anyone. Regex comes to mind. In other languages if 
something is in the standard library then it is going to be 
maintained by the core development team, that isn't exactly the 
case with D. If D wanted to try and attract scientific researches 
for example, then it would be a good idea to include and maintain 
those elements into the standard library to make it easier for 
them.