I just have to say that string mixins rock

[Jens Mueller]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 19:52:53 Paulo Pinto wrote:
> > What prevents me to use D besides toy projects is the lack of libraries.
> > Due to my time constraints I must use off the shelf libraries.
> 
> Yeah. That's a big problem, which is part of why Walter and Andrei have tried 
> to push Deimos. But it's also a problem that should go away over time, even if 
> it's happening frustratingly slowly at this point.
> 
> However, I _was_ pleasantly surprised the other day when I figured out the 
> other day that someone had already created a D parser for YAML ( 
> https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML ). I needefd one and was expecting to have 
> to write it (which I was actually kind of looking forward to, since I love 
> parsers, but it's nice to have it without having to do all of the work to get 
> it - especially when I'm already short on time). So, there are at least _some_ 
> libraries written in D which are floating around, just nowhere near enough.

Since we do not have many libraries we should do a better job at
promoting the ones we have. Currently it's even difficult to find the
existing ones.

Jens