Streaming interfaces

[Jason White]

There has been some work on the serialization front:

     http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/std.serialization

I don't think std.serialization can read/write directly from/to a 
socket. It seems to me that a generalized stream interface is 
required to achieve this.

There has also been some work recently on buffered streams (input 
only) that supports minimal data copying:

     "[RFC] I/O and Buffer Range"
     http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l9q66g$2he3$1@digitalmars.com

It's still in early stages, but it looks like a good design so 
far.

In short: There is no good replacement for std.stream yet. You 
might just have to use it in the meantime.