Why Phobos is cool

[Petar]

On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 12:28:27 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>
> It seems slim stdlib has enormous community implications and 
> require inordinate amount of coordination and agreements ; it 
> changes the whole culture.

I just want to add that this is a *very* important point. We 
definitely need more collaboration and coordination in our 
community. Some examples:
- dstep, dpp, Calypso
- install.sh, dvm, digger (much broader scope, but can also do 
what dvm does, AFAIR), setup-dlang (only usable for GitHub 
actions, but actually replicates the code of install.sh and dvm 
to some extent).
- various @nogc libraries (containers, threading, etc.)
- various networking libraries
- etc.

I guess, the most important thing that I see in other language 
communities that I miss in D is exactly the coordination and 
cooperation. Of course it's very far from perfect in all of them, 
but it still feels that D is falling behind.
And I think that this is not a money problem, but a community and 
leadership problem.