On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 20:37:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Especially the bit about throwing away years of accumulated programming work.
Our IRC discussion was more about simplifying the Phobos interface through breaking changes than actually just dropping and rewriting. Most the "phobos 2" would just be today's phobos with mistakes changed, autodecoding deprecated then removed, eager functions same deal (the discussion that started it was split vs splitter), static array interfaces removed (you'd have to explicitly slice at the call site instead of Phobos trying to two-layer ref them), etc.
So step one of this would be to copy existing code. Then cut the mistakes out.
The modified modules are just given a new package name (or something) to ease the transition.
