On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 21:30:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:

Oh, there is no doubt that handling UTF16 should be possible, but it can be done just as well, if not better, as a support library.

But it is very much undesirable to have more than a single string format for library authors to deal with.

Thanks for this.

As a casual D user who is coming from a Java background, I'm of the opinion that we do indeed need to improve Phobos to either (a) include lots of stuff in the std lib itself, or (b) guide users to trusted, well-tested third-party libraries. I've tried doing things with asynchronous stuff, http, encrypted sockets, etc, for small utilities we use at my work, but a decent amount of time is spent on just looking for a good library that works. Specifically, a single unifying async library similar to JS promises or Java's futures would drastically improve the ecosystem, imo.

On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 17:09:46 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 22:59:19 UTC, Vladimir Marchevsky wrote:

Its not curated. Its enforces a vision. It changes the compiler options. and its randomly configured in js.

On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 23:40:21 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

json or sdl, with well documented structure, not random js.

On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 08:34:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

Thank you. I hope to see something more tangible in the future as it's an interesting area to explore.

Bit of shame you feel the need to make a change given the circumstances you've detailed. I think you've done a fine job thus far.

Appreciate your response!

On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 23:40:21 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

Well, limit yourself to usage of std or phobos or whatever official implementation is called - and voila, it's curated.

So? Most of the people prefer to have build tool managing possible compiler options for them instead of typing the manually for each compiler, digging through all dependencies involved to find required options for them, etc, finally resulting in reinventing the same build tool. Especially when you have an option to manually override anything you dont like.

Dub has nothing common to JS. If you mean dub.json format - well, JSON is not a JS. And if you are allergic to human-readable formats, you can always use dub.sdl flavor.