On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:49:36 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
What needs to be standardized? Data structure architecture. Already in Phobos. Cross platform Input/Output. Already in Phobos.
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:49:36 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Why isn't Dub the way forward on this? Why a centralized massive library that is hard to change and evolve, why not a far more lightweight management of contributions via a centralized mechanism, i.e. Dub.
I completely agree with Russel here. Kitchen-sink standard libraries are becoming legacy of old days and luxury of enterprise languages. It is the concept rather harmful to decentralized development nature of modern languages and very limited in flexibility. With a largely uncontrolled contribution flow D simply can't afford such approach.
There is quite a lot of missing in how dub works, how registry is organized and how it is featured from the dlang.org - in other words, in highlighting and endorsing valuable community projects. But that has nothing to do with Phobos.
Most important thing Phobos can do is to standardizes API's of various widespread concepts so that different independent libraries can work together cleanly. Good example would be std.experimental.logger - it doesn't provide much of "smart" logging functionality (like syslog or cyclic buffer) but allows to build one on top of Phobos bits in a way that you can be sure that any 2 loggers fetched from dub will be compatible with each other. This is the main deal.
