> Not even just for development… a standard repository for “substandard”
> library(s) would be a great for commonly used types that aren’t quite
> commonly used enough to include in stdlib, and IMHO, could really help
> Swift’s ecosystem (I’m not claiming that it’s poor now or anything, but
> there’s nothing wrong with making it the best we can).
There have been attempts to establish exactly that (I'd describe it as "Boost
for Swift"), but without at least a tiny bit of support from Core, such plans
imho won't be successful:
It's way to easy to start your own "substandard"...
My favourite example why this would be beneficial are quaternions, which have
several implementations in different Apple frameworks :-( — and there are a lot
of really simple datatypes and functions which might be implemented over and
over, all doing nearly identical things, but none of them compatible with each
other.
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