Phobos vs Tango! What's your opinion?

[Daniel Giddings]

Dlé wrote:
> Hello people!
> 
> I'm working and studing this new (for me :-) ) language. I have some questions and i think your opinion is so precious for me.
> 
> First, D is a new language.The official library is Phobos. Why another library how Tango that is not compatible with Phobos? Because Tango is opensource and the comunity can develop the library?
> 
> Why not a concept how java for example, where we have only one big family of class?
> 
> Fundametals differences between Phobos and Tango?
> 
> Tank's!
> 
> I wait your opinions!
> 
> Dié
> 

It is rather unfortunate having both. Ideally Tango should be a 
stand-alone library that is an optional (and useful) extra. [Aside: is 
it possible to get the incompatible code in some way included in Phobos 
so they can run alongside happily? - are the incompatibilities in Tango 
enough to break large portions of Phobos if they were moved to it?]

They are incompatible however, forcing anyone developing to choose 
between the two and fragmenting libraries where developers haven't 
explicitly supported both.