std.experimental – DConf?
ponce via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 29 12:15:27 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 16:53:53 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 29/05/14 18:22, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Is it really fast moving when you have to wait for compiler
>> releases? I don't
>> think so.
>
> Fair point. What I was really trying to say is, that if
> something looks good from a design point of view, that getting
> it straight into std.experimental is probably a much more
> effective way of getting it out there and battle tested than
> having it on code.dlang.org, because there will most likely be
> orders of magnitude difference in user takeup between modules
> in each.
Now you have another problem, how do you know that something
"looks good" from a design point of view for inclusion in
std.experimental? Reviews like for Phobos inclusion? Especially
with no users at this point.
>
>> I also believe there is a positive correlation between "being
>> popular on
>> code.dlang.org" and "being useful and with a promising design".
>
> Indeed. I'm not arguing against popularity on code.dlang.org
> being a consideration for potential std.experimental modules,
> I'm just arguing against it being a requirement.
On what criterion do you filter applicants for std.experimental
then?
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