Phobo's migration

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 16:44:25 UTC, Joerg Joergonson 
wrote:
> How bout Freezing Phobos, except for bugs and start migrating 
> it to Phobos 2.0?.

This would kill the language.

> This will be migrating Phobos over to use the new 
> constructs(nogc, safe, etc),

How, in your opinion, are these not being used already?

> By the time it's finished D3 will be around and it could be 
> used for it.

D3 will probably never happen; at least not in the foreseeable 
future.

> This allows a clean break but and to learn, but not be shackled 
> by the past.  It could go rather fast(months rather than years) 
> since most of the code is already written, it just needs to be 
> migrated properly(might might not require anything but copy and 
> paste for large amounts of code).

What exactly, in your opinion, needs to be changed? What's so 
broken that it needs a "clean break"?