Hello Don,
John Reimer wrote:
Hello Johan,
As a user of D primarily and of the standard libraries secondly I
see this reluctance to solve the library situation as the single
biggest threat to D. It creates a division in the community and an
uncertainty of which library to base my own libraries on. If I use
one and the other wins the competition I have to redo a lot of work.
It's also a headache when distributing code as I don't know which
functions and packages I can assume exists.
I hear you. But the argument against this would probably be that
you would not have to redo all your work... you just start
integrating the use of the other (more popular) library in your work
(since they have common runtimes). While this is convenient, yet it
would seem to be cumbersome. Now projects will have dependencies on
both full libraries including the libary that falls from favour (if
that in fact happens).
On the other hand, it wouldn't be so bad if one of Tango or Phobos
became a 3rd-party/extension library (more suitably this should be
Tango), in which case it would seem more natural and familiar to use
it as an addon to the other library.
-JJR
The other option (which I would prefer) is for druntime to get bigger,
and encompass more of the common code from both. So that both Phobos
and Tango became (crucial) extension libraries over a small core. And
the bigger that common core becomes, the smaller the library problem
becomes.
Actually, I very much like that idea. And it seems to make sense too.
-JJR
