Phobos 3 Discussion Notes - 02-01-2024

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Sunday, 4 February 2024 at 01:01:28 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> JMD and I were talking about sockets and I think he came up 
> with an interesting approach to this problem. He built a 
> low-level API that is either BetterC compliant or very close to 
> it, and then built a higher level API on top of that. The 
> low-level API is painful to use but it allowed him to build the 
> high-level API he wanted in a way that made sense. You can use 
> the low-level API if you absolutely need that level of 
> performance/control/etc, but most projects will find the 
> high-level API to be sufficient for their needs.
>
> Perhaps this is a concept that we should investigate for other 
> areas of Phobos?

Absolutely.

A lot of things in Phobos unnecessarily use classes. I feel very 
strongly that V3 should go in the direction of using structs 
where possible, non-copyable/scoped/unique ones if needed.