Vote for std.process

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 16:42:18 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the other points you 
> raise,
> Phobos's excess allocations *are* verifiability hurting D. A 
> couple of
> the biggest potential user bases for D are videogames and 
> embedded. I
> feel confident in saying that no other language has as much 
> potential
> in these areas as D has. But these groups have *already*, 
> vocally, been
> facing the problem of avoiding/rewriting potentially-large 
> parts of
> Phobos, or sticking with C/C++.
>
> Now, you could argue that many of these people are simply being 
> overly
> fearful of a merely imagined problem, but even if that's true, 
> the
> problem is still real in it's effects: Hindering D adoption and 
> causing
> people to (perhaps needlessly) avoid/rewrite parts of Phobos.
>
> Now, I'm not suggesting that we do *or* don't start a big 
> effort to
> minimize allocations throughout Phobos, I'm simply objecting to 
> the
> implication that unnecessary allocations in Phobos aren't 
> hurting D in
> any way.

No, that's not what I was trying to say. I agree with your post 
completely. My point was specifically about std.process in 
particular, since I was misunderstanding why Manu was using 
std.process as an example.