On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 00:05:58 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
can we discuss the downside of making phobos huge?
I actively avoid adding phobos libs to my projects because it
bloats my binaries and increases compile times by massive
amounts.
Andrei has already stated that we are definitely going to make
Phobos large. We are _not_ going for the minimalistic approach,
and pretty much no other language is at this point either. So,
Phobos _will_ continue to grow in size.
Now, as Adam points out, we can should do a better job of making
it so that different pieces of Phobos don't depend on each other
if they don't need to, but it's a given at this point that Phobos
is only going to get larger. And if unnecessary dependencies are
kept to a minimum, then it really shouldn't hurt your compilation
times (and I'm sure that we'll have further compiler improvements
in that area anyway).
- Jonathan M Davis
