Phobos 3 Discussion Notes - 02-01-2024

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 19:09:00 UTC 2024


On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 17:48:30 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 15:08:37 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> On 03/02/2024 3:46 AM, aberba wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> That is not part of the current work, although Adam does have 
>> a wish list and thoughts about it.
>>
>> Please note that Phobos is getting close enough to the 64k 
>> symbol limit on Windows that we cannot be expanding its scope. 
>> So the consideration of how to architect a new standard 
>> library must occur prior to work on it.
>>
>> Starting with something that isn't just a wish list is right. 
>> It isn't some library that we can chop and change on, its 
>> going to live for 20+ years so its going to have to be 
>> designed right.
>
> I understand what you're saying however it doesn't necessarily 
> mean "adding" to existing code. I think a lot of the old legacy 
> stuff should be removed from new std.

If you have a list of stuff that you think should be removed from 
Phobos, I am all ears. If  you could start a discussion over in 
the repo that would be most helpful.
https://github.com/LightBender/PhobosV3-Design/discussions


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