What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Paul D. Anderson]

Jonathan M Davis Wrote:

> I think that it would be useful to query the community for what piece of 
> library functionality they don't currently have in D and would most like to 
> see. For instance, there is no official logging framework in D or any 3rd party 
> libraries which do it AFAIK. So, that could be one type of functionality that 
> you may like to see. Now, there is a prospective implementation for std.log 
> which shouldn't be all that far away from being reviewed, so listing that here 
> wouldn't be all that useful, since it's on its way. But what other major 
> functionality do you miss in D that other languages' that you use have 
> available in their libraries?
> 
> My hope here would be that we could get some good ideas going here such that 
> we have can have a better idea what type of functionality it would be 
> particularly useful to be working on for Phobos or 3rd party D libraries for 
> the community, and maybe it'll even get some people to actually go and work on 
> these ideas so that we can improve the libraries that we have to work with in 
> D. We can always use more help, and we definitely need a richer library 
> ecosystem for D. But even just discussing ideas could be of benefit.
> 
> So, what major functionality which we don't currently have would you like to 
> see in either Phobos or in a 3rd party library so that you could use it in 
> your D programs?
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

I'm nearing completion on an arbitrary-precision floating point library, along with implementations of decimal32, decimal64 and decimal128 structs.

Paul