Announcing a new library

[Sean Kelly]

It is our pleasure to announce the existence of a new application 
library named Tango.  Originally born from discussions about how to 
better integrate Mango and Ares, Tango has since grown substantially in 
scope, design, and participation to something that truly outshines its 
humble beginnings.  More than a simple collection of tools, it is our 
belief that Tango is a framework on top of which to build robust and 
extensible D libraries and applications.  And as we feel the 
availability of solid and extensive documentation represents a prime 
factor in library accessibility, Tango features a robust and growing set 
of documentation, examples, and tutorials.  A beta code release will 
follow shortly after the D 1.0 milestone, but in the interim here is an 
outline of some of its features:

* Modularity.  The compiler runtime and garbage collector implementation 
may be chosen at link-time.
* Atomic mark/sweep garbage collection by default, with a malloc-based 
stub allocator to serve as an example for future development.
* User interception of important language and system-level errors and 
events.
* Various levels of concurrency, including process control, kernel 
threads, and fibers (stack threads).
* A robust IO framework based on the Mango design.
* An array of mathematics routines ranging from low-level IEEE interop. 
to high-level statistics and numerics.
* A networking model that is growing to encompass some of the most 
common IO designs and network protocols.
* Standard C, POSIX, and system API support.
* Basic text processing, a container package, logging facilities, and more.

Tango has been tested with both DMD and GDC on Windows, Linux, and 
MacOSX for the x86 and PPC architectures.

A selection of contributors include:

Alexander Panek
Anders F. Björklund
Brad Anderson
Brad Roberts
Carlos Santander
Chris Miller
Don Clugston
Eric Anderton
Frank Benoit
Gregor Richards
Kashia Buch
Kris Bell
John Chapman
John Reimer
Juan Comellas
Lars Ivar Igesund
Mikola Lysenko
Regan Heath
Sean Kelly
Tomasz Stachowiak
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