What would you rewrite in D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/5/10 17:27 CDT, sybrandy wrote:
> Just asking out of curiosity.  With all the great language features, I'm
> sure that many of you have thought about this.
>
> For me, I figured a good start would be your basic Unix/Linux/BSD
> utilities, like cat and grep. I figure it may make the code easier to
> read and maintain as well as potentially improve the quality of the
> software. Of course, most of these are so old they're probably quite bug
> free, but some probably could use a rewrite. Some may even benefit for
> threading.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Casey

I wouldn't spend much time on rewriting classic utilities in D. There's 
plenty to be done anew. One category of tools to be written in D are 
utilities aimed at D itself (parsers, analyzers, Thrift bindings, 
protocol buffers bindings, code for DB interface, etc.)

Andrei