new XML and JSON libs and replacement of std.net.curl

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 16/08/2016 3:20 AM, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 15:04:29 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 16/08/2016 3:01 AM, Oleg B wrote:
>>> As replacement of std.net.curl I found
>>> https://github.com/ikod/dlang-requests. Who know's about this lib? Is
>>> this good replacement of std.net.curl?
>>
>> Nope, not a replacement.
>
> Why? I like it a lot more than std.net.curl (try to get the error code
> in std.net.curl) & the decision that etc (which wrap curl & zlib) needs
> to go has been made at Dconf, so I would love to see dlang-requests as
> std.experimental.http ;-)

No matter how much I would like curl to go, it still requires somebody 
willing to do it. Keep in mind that it won't be able to support https 
without adding a dependency such as Botan into the mix.
A heck a lot of work.