Is there interest in a std.http?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/19/12 3:38 PM, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
> I'd like to see an HTTP module in Phobos, but I wanted to gauge interest
> first and see if this has been discussed before.

I can say the following. We sorely need a server expert on board with 
the time and inclination to write a good server-side networking 
framework. We have a couple, but for various reasons I have been unable 
to convince them (through newsgroup and private exchanges) to invest 
time in such an endeavor. That's mostly because lack of time - speaking 
for myself, I wish I found the time to learn about all that, which as 
far as I understand gravitates around notions such as asynchronous I/O, 
libevent/libevt, select(), and the such. I've never used them so I'd 
need to start from scratch.

We really need an expert. Look at the Go programming language - it's not 
remarkable, but it benefits of full-time dedication of experts in 
server-side programming, so it has acquired excellent library support 
for networking servers. And they milk that for all it's worth: any 
discussion, article, or blog post about Go gravitates toward the 
five-lines HTTP server with the same implacable reach as conversations 
with ideologists, which inevitably converge towards their ideological 
stronghold.


Andrei