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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Jul 31 03:01:25 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-31 07:27, 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 personally would like to see DWT (GUI library, 
http://dsource.org/projects/dwt) in a more finished state. These are 
things that need work:

* Finishing the Mac OS X port
* Update to later SWT versions
* Fixing bugs
* Port to 64bit

Any help is much appreciated. Currently DWT is a low priority for me.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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