"Jimmy Cao" <jcao...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1263.1309305438.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, James Fisher > <jameshfis...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Though the site at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango gives no >> indication of that and still evangelizes migration from Phobos to Tango. >> Are there people that would disagree with your assessment? >> > > The tango homepage will never say something like, "D1/Tango is dead, > everyone migrate to Phobos!" If you look at the history of D, back in > 2006 > or 2007 when the system for requesting improvements and bugfixes was > rather > messy and Phobos was increasingly incompetent as a standard library, part > of > the community decided to work on replacing Phobos and make a better > library > for the community and driven by the community. So that was how the Tango > community started, and that community stayed with D1 when D2 was released. > > Both communities exist today, I guess, but the D2/Phobos community has > grown > the most, and D1/Tango community has shrunken (it's been years, the fact > that there are still some D1/Tango users means that Tango really is a fine > library). Phobos has improved ,also, and the transition to github has > helped it a lot. Your best bet is Phobos - its development is very > active, > and it is poised to clearly become the best standard library. >
And even if Tango does get ported to D2 (As I've heard some people are working on), it'll most likely be a suppliment to Phobos, rather than the "one or the other" issue it was on D1. (That's what druntime is for.)
