On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 22:48:53 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
Yes, Phobos is full of historical accidents and cruft. I'm
constantly tempted to propose Phobos v2 properly _designed_
(not *grown*) and without the junk. I really think it might be
a good idea but only when we actually know what a proper design
looks like.
You are not the only one!
Did you follow Ilya's proposal about a betterC modular standard
library?
http://forum.dlang.org/post/phexetutyelrssyru...@forum.dlang.org
Unfortunately it died because of the fear of "balkanizing the
community" with such a development...
(though I am not sure how it could be more "balkanized" as atm
everyone seems to grow their own home-made libraries)