On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 01:39:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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
I wasn't arguing against a large library(in fact, I prefer it.) I
just think the effort should be put towards making phobos more
modular before adding more stuff on top of it and making the
problem worse.
bye,
