Announcing a new library

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> 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
>> UWB
> 
> It sounds pretty sweet!
> And by the way, would the list of features/modules include something
> like Kramer's path utilities (
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/4363.html )
> which I had mention before once? It's not a very complicated featureset
> but I think it's a very useful one! (and certainly standard lib
> worthwhile)
> 

There are path functionality not currently in Phobos, although I can't say
at a glance that all mentioned in that post is immediately accessible.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
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