std.socket replacement

[tcak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 08:56:30 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
> I was a bit surprised to see that std.socket is deprecated as 
> of 2.069. Just curious, what's wrong with it? And what should I 
> use as a replacement? I know there is vibe.socket, but I don't 
> want to include fullstack web framework as a dependency just to 
> make some HTTP reqests.
>
> I also don't see any proposed replacements in a review queue. 
> Will std.socket and std.socketstream be just thrown away?

I would say "WTF" at first, then checked the documentation, but 
don't see anything
about deprecation. My current whole business relies on that.