On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 18:45:13 UTC, Israel wrote:
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 18:11:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
This has the advantage over existing situation where you have
the official library where things need to go through exacting
and time consuming process and then dub. Within dub every
project is at the same level and it is not obvious which
projects are the ones to use, and there is not necessarily
coherence in the different ways things are done, and the only
one motivated to work on supplementary features like
documentation is the project author. So you have very useful,
well written libraries that have no docs.
What i hate about dub is that no every library is ready to use.
Some require additional steps/resources in order to get them to
work. Dub does not have any indication of that because the
library authors dont usually include that information.
What is good about this "extra community driven standard
library" is that everything will be included in one place and
will be at the ready when it is needed.
Well, I certainly do appreciate that all these libraries exist
and, as D matures, better documentation a and a general tidying
up will surely be part of that process, as has already begun with
phobos.
There is something of a hacker disdain for docs - they are not
fun to write (for most people), and one thinks that a few
pointers should be enough for someone to figure it out. And
that's true, for someone like the author of the code. But it is
hard to imagine what it is like not to have the skillset and
experience one has. And so it is a very different experience for
the new user coming from python than what he experienced when he
learnt python, even though if you have the basic ability D need
not be intrinsically harder.
The division of labour makes sense - the people who like and are
good at writing docs are not necessarily those who like and are
good at writing code. But its harder to recruit helpers for a
personal project than a shared library.
