Phobos 3 Discussion Notes - 02-01-2024

[Adam Wilson]

On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 14:46:45 UTC, aberba wrote:
> What about the missing standard library pieces  that are core 
> to everyday software dev? Stuff you get out of the box with 
> java/python. Is there such considerations beyond fixing the 
> mistakes of v2?
>
> * Json
> * XML
> * Streams
> * Networking (http, socket, ...)
> ....
>
>
>
> If I understand correctly, v3 is about . How about new module 
> additions to v3 such as the above?

The above list are all things that I would love to see make it in 
to Phobos 3. The reason that I haven't put them down as 
commitments is because, as Rikki noted, the present design does 
not yet allow us to make those commitments yet. The multi-root 
design I've proposed would allow us to deliver them without 
breaking Windows, but my campaign to get it accepted hasn't been 
approved yet.

And you did hit on an important point though, the things that we 
are looking at adding are cross-cutting concerns that are 
applicable to a wide variety of software and that's the guideline 
we're going to follow moving forward.