Right after allocators: containers or database connectivity?

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-06-09 19:05, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> My work on allocators takes the last turn before the straight line. I've
> arranged with Dicebot to overlap the review period with finalizing
> details so I can act on feedback quickly.
>
> After that I'm ready for some major library work, and I had two things
> in mind.
>
> One would be a good pass of std.container, in particular (a) a design
> review with the DbI glasses on; (b) better documentation - sadly it
> seems to me so inadequate as to make containers themselves unusable; (c)
> investigate use of UFCS - std.container's design predates UFCS yet is a
> perfect fit for it, and most likely other cool language improvements
> we've added since.
>
> The other would be database connectivity.

I vote for databases. I also vote for an interface that is independent 
of ODBC, but ODBC could be one of the drivers that implements this 
interface. I know that there's a native implementation of the MySQL 
protocol on code.dlang.org.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg