"Stewart Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Bernard Helyer wrote: >> On 19/02/10 13:13, retard wrote: >>> It might help the badly split community if Tango developers started >>> their >>> own fork of D. >> >> No, it wouldn't. A fork would *completely* split the community (and be >> disastrous IMO), not help it. > > I'm not sure. Given that the damage is already done, if the Tango > community can break away and be programming in another language derived > from D, it might finally stop people complaining nonsensically that D has > two "standard" libraries. Tango would be E's standard library, and Phobos > would remain D's. >
With D1 it's a legitimate concern, but (if I understand druntime right) once Tango is ported, complaining about D2 having 2 std libs would be much like complaining about C++ having two or three (std c lib, STL, and boost). If that doesn't shut people up about "2 std libs", nothing will.
