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

[Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 15:25:22 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> 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.

Oh I thought the author was just asking whether it is a good 
replacement for him personally.
Well before we worry about Botan, I think libasync needs to 
arrive first ;-)

https://github.com/etcimon/libasync

(it's from the same author as Botan)