What external libraries are available

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-06-05 03:20, Mike Brockus wrote:
> If you never herd about Meson before:
> 🤔. https://mesonbuild.com/
> 
> Hay there I was just wondering, what is the D equivalent to C++ Boost 
> and or Poco libraries?

I don't think there are any libraries that are a direct comparison to 
Boost (I'm not familiar with Poco). There are a couple of general 
purpose libraries available here [1]. Like mecca [2] and ocean [3].

> Just wondering because I would like to start playing with other 
> developers libraries and use them in a collection of examples for the 
> library.  The examples will be lunched to a GitHub repository as a show 
> case so the library developers can show a link to new potential users 
> that seek examples.
> 
> What I mean by Boost or Poco equivalent is a grouping of fully 
> functional packages/modules.  It’s ok if you recommend a single library 
> and it is a plus if Meson build is apart of the library.
> 
> I am aware of Mir Libraries being a group of libraries and incorporates 
> the use of Meson, however I normally like to see what my options are to 
> better plan my applications.

There are 1576 packages available here [1]. It's the list of packages 
for the Dub package manager (and build system). These package range from 
full frameworks to single file packages.

[1] https://code.dlang.org
[2] https://code.dlang.org/packages/mecca
[3] https://code.dlang.org/packages/ocean-d2

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/Jacob Carlborg