Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright

Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by steveklabnik on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:50PM (#12392795)

Definitely didn't assume you were. Because there was so much interest in Rust pre-1.0, there's a lot of outdated material out there, and so it can confuse people. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/14954 specifically was a huuuuge headache for a long time.

This is slowly changing, of course, the farther we get away from 1.0. I still worry about it, though.

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by qznc on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:38AM (#12397509)

D has a similar problem. There is quite some outdated material on D1 out there. :)

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by vram22 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:57AM (#12398782)

Yes. There are pages that start with dlang.org/phobos/... and others that start with dlang.org/library/... I need to confirm but I think the "Phobos" ones are for the current library of D(ver)2 and "library" ones are for Tango, a different library that diverged from the standard one during the D1 days - something like that. I think I read that they have later sort of unified again, either that, or Tango is obsolete or less recommended. Maybe others who know more can comment.

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by qznc on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:16PM (#12400725)

Everything on dlang.org is fine. The phobos/ and library/ sections are two versions of the same content, generated from the same source files at the same time. The library/ stuff is the future, but not completely polished yet.

The obsolete stuff is dsource.org. Most of it does not compile anymore and has no maintainers. If you are looking for libraries to use, go to https://code.dlang.org/.

Phobos is the standard library. Tango is a D1 projects. Most of it has been ported and integrated into Phobos now. Some people still like the Tango XML library: https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by vram22 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:51PM (#12401376)

After reading your comment I googled a bit and found this thread, which was somewhat interesting (2012), as also its linked /r/programming thread:

https://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/dispelling-commo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/118y4m/dispell...

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by vram22 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:07PM (#12401107)

Wow, didn't know that stuff. Thanks for explaining.

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by vram22 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @03:58PM (#12393354)

Cool. Then it's good that you're raising these points.

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