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I logged back into the forums to try and find it, but I didn't see a way to pull up old posts. IIRC, the issue I posted about had to do with some of the underlying parsers. I was looking at the CSV stuff and I believe one of the types it relies on had a skipBOM function, or one of the functions would skip the BOM, or something along those lines. But what it did was blindly increment the file pointer without checking…
It seems that the thread you are referring to is this one: http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1569 (the forum profile view really needs a listing of the person's threads/posts). From looking at the thread, it seems that this is a simple case of your thread becoming lost in the noise of the forum. Please don't feel that you were ignored on purpose. I think that Araq simply forgot to reply to you, it's easy for threads to get…
But that isn't even the important point. The deficiencies I outlined haven't been been revisited have they?
If not, it would seem my distrust wasn't so misplaced, and that was the bigger point.
Who knows, maybe the rest of the stdlib has had more thought put into it, but that was the first bit of the stdlib I had dove into the source for and what I saw wasn't good. I didn't want to do that for the rest of the stdlib either.
If Araq has become the bottleneck, then maybe something needs to change in your process, because as you can clearly see I offered to be the one to make the changes.
And to be clear, I'm not angry about it, I just chose to spend my time elsewhere. Intentional or not, the language dev's as a whole could be doing a better job getting other people involved.