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

[simendsjo]

On 31.07.2011 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

 From the top of my head, in no particular order:
* xml
* csv
* ini
* logging
* database interface
* serialization
* parsing / easier to create external dsl's - antlr port?
* smtp
* uri - a complete uri implementation, not the simple validation that 
exists now
* wsdl - far from everything is REST
* ftp (this is perhaps included with curl?)
* globalization - languages, number formats etc.
* gui - perhaps not best done in phobos, but it's difficult to get up 
and running to say the least..
* html producer
* html parser
* cgi/fastcgi
* cryptography
* oauth

And some windows specifics:
* "complete" win32 bindings - move the win32 project to etc/c/win32?
* better com integration (like http://dsource.org/projects/juno)