Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoption of D?

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.314.1190992928.16939.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On 9/28/07, Don Clugston <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote:
>>> Walter cannot continue to be responsible for the entire
>>> standard library as well as the compiler.
>> Why not?
>>
>> He's done a damn good job so far.
> 
> I suppose that's why there's an effort to make an alternative stdlib, then? 
> Or maybe those who are making Tango are just a bunch of unreasonable 
> implacable jerks.
> 
> Fact is there's a pretty large contingent of people who _don't_ think 
> Walter's done a damn good job with Phobos, myself included.  There are 
> threads upon threads about this topic already, however. 

I think he did a good job writing and pulling together contributions to 
form a credible basic library to make writing apps possible.

But now to go on to the next stage, people want more out of their 
standard library.  Like containers for goodness sake -- linked lists, 
sets, queues and dequeues, etc.

--bb