Where is contribution most needed to the D community?

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 07:45:09 UTC, Kira Backes wrote:
> Dear D users,
>
>
> after a long time evaluating all options I think I finally 
> committed to D and vibe.d! Since I’ll have a lot of memory 
> usage and I want to do an MMORPG I always was scared off by 
> GC-enabled languages, but after thoroughly evaluating what this 
> language (and vibe.d) gives me in terms of performance, memory 
> usage (this is especially important, a lot of GC-languages like 
> Java have unacceptable memory bloat for objects etc.) and 
> productivity I think this is the best decision. Obviously I’ll 
> have some work to do later to move most of the objects out of 
> the GC (they usually live from the start of the server to the 
> end of the server) but I now thinks that this work is still a 
> lot less then all the other work combined. I especially like 
> the built-in contract programming, invariants and unit-tests 
> and I think they’ll be worth a lot! And even more awesome is 
> the compile-time reflection for serialization (very important 
> for my projects).
>
> So, what I actually wanted to ask, which part/project do you 
> think mostly needs contribution? The D documentation on this 
> page? Mono-D (I’ll be using that, already contributed to an 
> issue)? DUB? vibe.d and its documentation? More tutorials on a 
> seperate blog?
>
> Please tell me what you think! :-)
>
>
> rgds, Kira Backes

A good web service stack is the main thing for Vibe I believe.
Because of this I started Cmsed (I'll push it into repo soon) a 
component library that also functions as a content management 
system. I also built and still working on an ORM (Dvorm [0]).
I need OpenDBX support for e.g. Mysql added to it. I have 
bindings to it available. Mongo already supported.

There is also standards like odata I wish to support with my 
router natively. For this I need some sort of relationship system 
within Dvorm.

I strongly believe some sort of GWT [1] inspired system is also 
required to work alongside a router. I did have this planned for 
DOOGLE [2] but since talk about a new gui base system, there's 
little point in me continuing it.

But from a practical side. We need articles showing good examples 
of simple code to do awesome stuff.
Benchmarks on memory/cpu usage ext. Also very important.

At the end of day, choose what you're good at and love. It'll 
help no matter what it is :)

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Dvorm
[1] http://www.gwtproject.org/
[2] https://github.com/rikkimax/DOOGLE