On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 11:45:37 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
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.
Yes, there is a lot of overlap in the D community: 4 D compiler projects, a bunch of IDE projects, a bunch of GUI library projects, a bunch of (basic) game engine projects... All rather large in scope if you want to reach a complete state.
What is needed is a committee ;). But seriously, if you had a nice public API design on paper then maybe people would flock behind the same project rather than creating their own. Unless they do it for educational reasons/entertainment.
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.
Python is pretty close to pseduo code and has managed to grow a community that cares about API design which the language supports fairly well. Since the language is inefficient and provides no static typing good programmers tend to write cleaner code in it... Bad language qualities can lead to better coding ;)
