On 19-01-2012 19:52, Zachary Lund wrote:
I've been wondering in the back of my mind for awhile now and it really
hasn't bothered me much but I figured I might as well get it off my mind.
Why is there a need for a default "standard" library? I can understand
about some of the core stuff, but hell, even threads can be handled via
a 3rd party library. Why must Phobos or any library be a part of D itself?
I'm unfamiliar with the reason for C++ having a standard library as well
(which I bring up when people bitch about poor design or something
similar which I usually get no viable or any answer at all). More of an
ignorant question probably but oh well...
Without a standard library, interoperation between libraries becomes a
huge pain, because there's no standard interface/design for various
things such as threads, containers, bigints, networking, file I/O, etc.
Not to mention, if a standard library didn't exist, you'd have to adapt
your build system to whatever arbitrary amount of libraries you need to use.
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- Alex
