Deprecate std.signals?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Sat May 8 11:16:06 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 09:37:07 UTC, Ahmet Sait wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 11:23:21 UTC, Berni44 wrote:
>> I've got the feeling, that std.signals is rarely used and not 
>> up to D's standards... Therefore I suggest to move it to 
>> undead and deprecate it.
>>
>> But I might err on this. What do you think?
>
> So I did some research on this looking at phobos and a bunch of 
> other signal/event implementations and concluded that 
> std.signals isn't even that bad (in fact it's better than some 
> of the stuff found in the wild). It has issues but they are 
> fixable.

I have no opinion on this, but just want to point out that many 
programmers now expect React-like observer-patterns. I'm not 
making a judgment of whether that is good or bad, but something 
comparable is more likely to be adopted.




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