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

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1978.1312090051.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>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?
>

Off the top of my head: curl and xml