Which Dub packages are you using?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 20:10:27 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Arsd has been used in many unexpected placed I've come across 
> D. Glad you did it and still heavily maintained.

Yeah, I have just done a lot of things over a lot of years now. 
My cgi.d was first written in 2008*, dom.d in 2010, simpledisplay 
in 2011. Much of it is fairly basic functionality and it has been 
around for a long time, so no surprise to see it pop up.

I have no idea how many people actually use it. I get some emails 
from people who use it but not very many. I don't trust the dub 
stats for one because my lib is designed to be used without dub 
downloads and I encouraged that for many years, and for two the 
numbers just seem off. I think a small handful of CI runners 
account for most the downloads instead of real users. That the 
top 5 consistently has 2 testing packages would seem to reinforce 
this belief.

fun fact, the original version of Hunt actually was basically a 
repackaged arsd to integrate it more. Doesn't look like they 
still have any of my code in there anymore though. They probably 
rewrote as they grew.

* well actually i did a form of cgi.d even earlier than that, but 
the original version was deleted and completely rewritten in 
2008. Since then though it has been the same codebase... and 
actually still pretty compatible with what it was back then. I 
always try not to break old stuff unless I have a good reason.

> Has ketmar been on any DConf, will be interesting to know him.

he told me once he reads and writes english a lot better than 
listens and speaks, so he doesn't get much out of dconf. Fairly 
active on the irc room when he's not busy with his other projects 
though. He's both written and ported a lot of good code.