On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 05:50:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Clearly this is a matter in which reasonable people can disagree. It is my opinion that more functionality in the standard library is the right strategy for D.
>
> Andrei

Some functionality is more functional than others :) There is lot of good stuff missing in Phobos but turning it into kitchen sink mess does not seem a good idea. Also relevant : my remark about GUI lib in Phobos : http://forum.dlang.org/post/wrwwtzxcohgarqsnftwv@forum.dlang.org

I think we should aim to include dub into 2.068 standard distribution to make people more aware of all good stuff.

On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 22:39:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Things like std.typetuple, while not being as broken as std.json implementation-wise, deal good amount of damage being a technical debt. It simply unpleasant to build anything on top of it and Phobos lacks quite many metaprogramming utilities. It is also a small but important step in simplifying related learning curve.
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> I agree it shouldn't be considered a priority but if there is a work done already there - why not?

It is funny how some thing come up again and again. Literally everybody is confused as hell by tuples for ages.

As for json, Adam had some very nice work done on this. I'd love to see what he did become part of std.json (or something similar interfacewize).

On 1/30/15 10:17 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 05:50:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Clearly this is a matter in which reasonable people can disagree. It
>> is my opinion that more functionality in the standard library is the
>> right strategy for D.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Some functionality is more functional than others :) There is lot of
> good stuff missing in Phobos but turning it into kitchen sink mess does
> not seem a good idea.

So... you just repeated your opinion. Should I also repeat mine?

> Also relevant : my remark about GUI lib in Phobos
> : http://forum.dlang.org/post/wrwwtzxcohgarqsnftwv@forum.dlang.org

GUI is big enough to be too challenging.

> I think we should aim to include dub into 2.068 standard distribution to
> make people more aware of all good stuff.

That may be getting somewhere.


Andrei

On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 07:17:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Some functionality is more functional than others :) There is lot of
>> good stuff missing in Phobos but turning it into kitchen sink mess does
>> not seem a good idea.
>
> So... you just repeated your opinion. Should I also repeat mine?

I think you have just done it already, indirectly :P

Sorry, I simply wasn't sure if it is just the wording or you really stand by this opinion currently - if latter is the case, so be it :)