On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 13:19:29 UTC, Luis wrote:
There is some discussion if dmd should not use phobos because there would be a circular relation. Well, as you pointed CLang uses std, so where is the problem ?
I don't think there is a problem, but if there is a problem then that problem would transfer to all other major projects using phobos.
Either phobos is considered alpha (unstable api) or not. If it is ok to use it for a database engine, then it is ok to use it for the compiler as well. If not then people should be given fair warning of what is and isn't considered alpha.
I think that not should be any problem if dmd always uses the previous version of phobos to bootstrap itself.
Yes, perhaps not the previous version, but a specified stable version (same version for compiler, runtime and library).
There is no "circular relation" in this as long as you use a compiler that is pretty solid.
