I understand such a library collection would have many holes
right now, but movement also creates its own momentum. I just
think it would be good that dlang.org provided some more guidance.
I don't know, I hope to get some time on lazy Sundays to finally
read Alexandrescu's book which I bought quite long ago, then
start using D for more hobby projects and get to know more
libraries and maybe get involved in the projects.
On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 10:05:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
I suppose java has even longer history of usage of 3rd party
libraries.
Yeah but Java's standard library itself includes many such
utilities, and I think it was the key ingredient for its success
in the 90s, together with the multi-platform support, but imo
even more instrumental.
But probably the best example to follow for D both in general and
at this point, which is forgot to mention, is Python. Its success
story is almost unbelievable: the language design is godawful, so
many people like it, but I can't help thinking that they just
love what they can do with it, because "there's one package for
that" always which is standard de facto.
If D had got the same amount of community involvement, it would
have a complete kitchen sink standard library collection by now.
But I think those two things have to go in sync.
