Signals/Slots only with classes

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/18/20 5:53 PM, norm wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 16:27:43 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 16:36:37 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>> No. std.signals is old, old-fashioned but is still there because 
>>> there's no proposals to replace it and the standards for std are high.
>>
>> Great. So there's a module in phobos that's not up to phobos' 
>> standards and it doesn't get improved, because the standards are too 
>> high. That's depressing.
>>
> 
> It is. std.xml, std.json, std.stream...
> 
> The bar was raised in an effort to improve quality but it was done so at 
> the expense of incremental improvements. I.e. it had to be near perfect 
> or nothing. Given the size of the D community it is the latter and 
> Phobos is effectively in maintenance mode.
> 
> If D had contributors lining up like say Python then it might be a 
> different story but it doesn't.

Well put.