Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jimmy Cao" <jcao219 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1263.1309305438.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, James Fisher 
> <jameshfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Though the site at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango gives no
>> indication of that and still evangelizes migration from Phobos to Tango.
>>  Are there people that would disagree with your assessment?
>>
>
> The tango homepage will never say something like, "D1/Tango is dead,
> everyone migrate to Phobos!"  If you look at the history of D, back in 
> 2006
> or 2007 when the system for requesting improvements and bugfixes was 
> rather
> messy and Phobos was increasingly incompetent as a standard library, part 
> of
> the community decided to work on replacing Phobos and make a better 
> library
> for the community and driven by the community.  So that was how the Tango
> community started, and that community stayed with D1 when D2 was released.
>
> Both communities exist today, I guess, but the D2/Phobos community has 
> grown
> the most, and D1/Tango community has shrunken (it's been years, the fact
> that there are still some D1/Tango users means that Tango really is a fine
> library).  Phobos has improved ,also, and the transition to github has
> helped it a lot.  Your best bet is Phobos - its development is very 
> active,
> and it is poised to clearly become the best standard library.
>

And even if Tango does get ported to D2 (As I've heard some people are 
working on), it'll most likely be a suppliment to Phobos, rather than the 
"one or the other" issue it was on D1. (That's what druntime is for.)