On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 15:44:38 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
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And that is completely wrong headed.
+1
As much as I'm sympathetic to the arguments for a slim standard
library, the amount of problems I've had in a corporate setting
trying to get libraries installed behind firewalls/proxies makes
me glad for the larger one. Until a few years ago, I had to
manually download every R library and every single one of their
dependencies and manage them myself. It's one reason I really
like run.dlang.org. I've never had a problem with it.
Of course, I see nothing wrong with a high bar for entry into the
standard library or the sort of promotion/relegation-type
approach I've heard on the forums.
