Phobos v2 asynchronous IO

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 19:20:25 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 16:25:16 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>
>> Why wait for Phobos to get its act together? Put it up on dub 
>> and we can start playing around today.
>
> Because it should be an official async Phobos interface that 
> other libraries can use. There already exist async libraries 
> which are half done and maintained. Also you shouldn't be 
> forced to pull some third party library for basic IO 
> functionality.

A library can be "official" and "first party" without being part 
of Phobos. For example, it could be owned by the [Github dlang 
organization][1], and have its documentation hosted on dlang.org 
alongside the official standard library docs.

There are substantial advantages to putting a library on dub 
rather than in Phobos, including the ability to release breaking 
changes using semantic versioning, and the ability to release 
updates independently of Phobos's release schedule.

As far as "half done and maintained" goes...the people writing 
and maintaining libraries on dub and the people writing and 
maintaining Phobos modules are, for the most part, the same 
people. If they couldn't do a good enough job to satisfy you on 
dub, what makes you think they'll do a better job in Phobos?

[1]: https://github.com/dlang/