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[Ecstatic Coder]

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 05:20:16 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 20:24:02 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>>> database access (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aerospike) libraries are 
>>>> available,
>>>
>>> That is important actually.
>>>
>>
>> So important that it should be a Priority 0 Must Have.
>
> Luckily it should also be quite strightforward to write them. 
> At minimum there would be a C, Go, Java and Python “driver” to 
> look at.
>
> Also surprisingly, D has superior driver for MySQL that talks 
> native binary protocol while most other languages use the text 
> mode.
>
>>>> preferably as a standard library (like in Dart and Go).
>>>
>>> Can’t do that. And it’s not standard in Go and Dart but 
>>> packages, dub
>>> should work for that.
>>>
>>
>> I've been thinking about this question a LOT, and I'm not 
>> convinced it's impossible to put the DB libs into the standard
>
> Problem is - the development of std has glacial pace. Even if 
> you put say Aerospike in std, I don’t think it’s in our best 
> interest to have stagnated DB libs. DBs add features and ship 
> new versions all the time.
>
> What might work is JDBC style approach - having a common 
> interface in std with implementations in 3rd party. SQL might 
> work this way.
>
> NoSQL though is highly irregular and benefits primarily from 
> features unique to a particular vendor.

This is the best answer I've even been given on the main drawback 
of a standard library component.

Then I suggest that some script is used which "standardizes" the 
module component of a thirdparty library to make it belong to the 
"std" namespace, and put the result in the DMD/GDC/LDC 
installation packages.

Best of both worlds...