On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 09:18:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/21/2020 8:33 PM, 9il wrote:
These functions in Phobos would make a great advertisement
for Mir.
How this possible?
A lot more people will have Phobos than Phobos+Mir. If they are
perusing the source code and see Mir contributed excellent
floating point formatting code, they may have never heard of
Mir but have now.
"If, If Is Good" (Disney Company). From the marketing point of
view, this doesn't make real sense.
Then they'll be likely to be positively disposed towards using
Mir because of the high quality code.
Mir doesn't need a Phobos conformity mark. In many designs and
implementation questions, Phobos is far behind Mir. The reality
is that Phobos asks for 6K+ LOC Mir's code, while Phobos legacy
in Mir's codebase is less than a quite well reworked few
percentages.
It's the same idea as HBO offering the first episode for free
in a miniseries. People watch the first episode, like it, and
then subscribe to HBO.
I don't take payments from people to use Mir. They don't need to
dig in Phobos source code to find it. Likely they will search
GitHub or code.dlang.org to find a solution they need.
Having them in Mir is already a great advertisement for Mir
Since they exist in the C standard library (except for DMC :-(
) they by themselves aren't a compelling reason for someone to
use Mir.
They are, Mir comes with a CTFE/@nogc/nothrow formatting API and
these functions are play well inside.
