Isn't `each` too much of a good thing?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Sep 18 14:40:08 UTC 2020


On 9/18/20 10:26 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2020-09-17 19:41, Seb wrote:
> 
>> The only way for this to ever happen is if we start with it. One 
>> function at a time.
>> I suggest simply creating a new repository and starting from zero.
>> Apart from the clear mental divide and separation, this has the added 
>> advantage that we can just keep druntime and phobos as is and work on 
>> a new combined "base" library. There are a few others like being able 
>> to immediately ship it via dub or being able to use GitHub's features 
>> (issues, projects, roadmaps, ...).
> 
> I suggest to have some for of plan. If we start just throwing in stuff 
> it most likely is not going to be any better than the current version.

At DConf 2019 I discussed a new version of std separately with a handful 
of folks. Two things that all discussions had in common:

1. They were incredibly excited by the perspective.

2. They had wildly different (and in parts conflicting) views on what 
that should look like.



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