Can D used for BIG-HUGE projects?

[aberba]

On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 11:44:16 UTC, 9il wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 10:29:11 UTC, Marlon wrote:

>
> I didn't fork the language. I am backing libraries. It is a 
> different things.
> ...
> Yes, that is the problem. And don't need to blame people and 
> companies that they don't want to spend their time and money 
> investing in Phobos. BTW, Symmetry supports works on the 
> compiler, DRuntime, and Mir. That is the Dlang Foundation 
> problem that people and companies invest in their solutions 
> instead of work together under DLF umbrella. Have you thought 
> of why? Do you really think, for example, I want to create 
> these libraries? No, I wanted to get my job done and go walk 
> with my dog.
>
> The fact is that I did a lot of contributions to Phobos and 
> then I created std.experimental.ndslice, which was accepted. 
> Quite sad. But I don't want to put my efforts into Phobos 
> anymore. I can code because companies pay money, and moving 
> code to Phobos means work more, get less, and play in the 
> sandbox I don't want and don't need to play. If the sandbox 
> needs me to play in, it can change the rules. My experience 
> with current rules was negative but informative.
>

I kind of agree with 9il on this and I'm sure if I could roll my 
own stuff in such a situation, I would have done that myself. 
Phobos isn't really turned for that level of performance and 100% 
nogc use case. I'm quite happy about the work Symmetry is doing 
in contribution to the packages and ecosystem overall. It gives 
everyone the opportunity to use whatever they want. I personally 
see nothing wrong with pulling a package from dub vs phobos.


I've seen over and over here how folks complain about the pain 
and process around getting anything in phobos.