Is D right for me?

[pipe dream]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 10/11/2010 12:38 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> > But parts of phobos are deprecated or will be deprecated and there still
> > is no alternative for them.
> > That may prevent people from writing "real" projects in D2 (or D at all)
> > - who wants to use classes that will be deprecated soon?
> > Sure, that old stuff will not be removed and can still be used, but I
> > personally feel a bit uncomfortable with using deprecated code.
> 
> Agreed. Maybe this is a good time to sart making a requirements list for 
> streams. What are the essential features/feature groups?

You could take a look at Tango's I/O by Kris Bell. It seems to have an efficient and clean design.