One more question - an untapped audience.

[ed]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 04:29:22 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:

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> If anything Phobos needs to get bigger and increase the 
> coverage standard available functionality. We can talk about 
> improvements to reduce module dependencies, and improve layout, 
> design, and code quality, but none of those are sufficient 
> reasons in my mind to through out the idea of a stdlib 
> altogether.
>

I disagree to some extent. I don't want to see Phobos, the core 
stdlib get bigger. But I do want to see the official module list 
grow.

I'd love to have opt-in officially endorsed, D-dev reviewed and 
supported modules for things like sqlite/db access, xml, gui, 
gfx, SciD etc. etc. Whether via dub or tarball, I'm easy.

I dislike package managers but DUB is simple to use and works 
reasonably well. If it were adopted as "the" package system for 
official D modules I would have no problem.

A dub GUI would be an interesting side project...I might have to 
have a hack at that. Anyone else working on one?

Cheers,
ed