explicitly separate Phobos v3 into at 2 projects
monkyyy
crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 20:26:16 UTC 2024
One of the splits in the d community is on the topic of template
hell; on my side the story goes, with templates we will make N
data structures and M of algorthims and we will get NxM programs
that heavily reuse code. The other side of the debate thinks
templates airnt worth the effort and make bad error messages.
This other side includes Walter.
Andrei Alexandrescu has been gone for at least a few years,
theres no one to push this goal forward, or even to defend old
ground. I dont know if my side is 10% of the d community or 70%,
but I use d *for* the best template hell available.
If Walter dictates that Phobos should use less templates and the
person managing Phobos doesn't even like template hell(I believe
both of these are true); ranges are unlikely to improve in any
respect for v3, and a very ineffective and painful attempt to
minimize template usage of `std.algorithm` will be done
uselessly. The job of writing range related code should go to
literally anyone else who likes templates in an attempt to fill
the job Andrei Alexandrescu left.
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