IAP Tools for D

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 16/12/15 10:47 PM, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
> Hi D Community,
>
> I am currently working on a cloud project where we intend to reinvent a
> lot of the old, less-than-optimal technologies. Among the technologies
> we are working on is a new general purpose network protocol called IAP.
>
> IAP comes with a general purpose binary data format called ION (IAP
> Object Notation). ION is similar to MessagePack and CBOR, but with a few
> additions. ION has a table mode which can be used to model tables (like
> CSV files) efficiently, and which can also be used in larger object
> graphs. Our early serialized length + performance benchmarks look
> promising (tables can be down to 1/5 of JSON, and up to 2 x the speed of
> parsing CBOR).
>
> ION can be used both inside IAP, but also separately with HTTP and in
> data and log files.
>
> We already have a working toolkit in Java (we have Java backgrounds),
> but since we really find D interesting, we would like to make a D
> toolkit too.
>
> Since we are rather new to D, would anyone be interested in helping us a
> bit out making such a library? We can probably do the coding ourselves,
> but might need some tips about how to pack it nicely into a D library
> which can be used with Dub etc.

If you hop onto IRC #d Freenode, there maybe somebody from time to time 
that can give you a hand. Or at worst help solve some of your problems.