Right after allocators: containers or database connectivity?

[Justin Whear via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:05:24 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> 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. Erik Smith has shown some cool
> ideas at DConf, and I encourage him to continue working on them, but it
> seems to me this is an area where more angles mean more connectivity
> options.

My vote would be for containers.  At EMSI we do make heavy use of MySQL 
but have our own idiomatic D wrapper around the C library and would have 
little incentive to switch to a generic ODBC implementation.