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

[Jimmy Cao]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:13 AM, simendsjo <simendsjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<http://dsource.org/projects/juno>
> )
>


FTP, HTTP, and SMTP are the protocols that are included in etc.curl.
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