Databases & daemons

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 05:27:38 UTC, chuck wrote:
> My first post. :)
>
> I come from a perl background but currently I am looking into 
> transitioning into a compiled language. I am a fan of open 
> software and know of the affinity Gnu has towards the C 
> language, but would like to learn something that is a bit more 
> like what I am used to. I have been working my way through Ali 
> Çehreli's tutorial and like the language.
>
> My question is: does Phobos or another standard library have 
> intentions to make it easier to connect to a database (either 
> Postgresql, etc. or a new D database that someone may be 
> working on) and create daemons through D bindings, or will I 
> need to know more C in order to use the proper code in extern 
> segments? I am aware of independent projects for databases, but 
> several of these have came and disappeared over time and I 
> would like something with a more stable history. As for 
> daemons, I know that I can call an extern C fork command, but 
> is this as pure as D gets in this regard?

My projects are relatively quite new but they do meet everything 
else.
I have Dvorm[0] which maps classes to database's. Supports 
currently in memory and Mongo (via Vibe).
I do plan to add e.g. Mysql support via OpenDBX which is a c 
library as a provider to it.

I have bindings for OpenDBX[1] which utilises Derelict's shared 
library loader.

At current point in time I don't believe we will be adding 
anything to standard library for this or create another (past 
issues).

There is also others available on code.dlang.org if you haven't 
seen already.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Dvorm
[1] https://github.com/rikkimax/Derelict_Extras---OpenDBX