What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 31 July 2011 01:53:25 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1978.1312090051.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> 
> >I think that it would be useful to query the community for what piece of
> >
> > library functionality they don't currently have in D and would most like
> > to
> > see. For instance, there is no official logging framework in D or any
> > 3rd
> > party
> > libraries which do it AFAIK. So, that could be one type of functionality
> > that
> > you may like to see. Now, there is a prospective implementation for
> > std.log
> > which shouldn't be all that far away from being reviewed, so listing
> > that
> > here
> > wouldn't be all that useful, since it's on its way. But what other major
> > functionality do you miss in D that other languages' that you use have
> > available in their libraries?
> > 
> > My hope here would be that we could get some good ideas going here such
> > that
> > we have can have a better idea what type of functionality it would be
> > particularly useful to be working on for Phobos or 3rd party D libraries
> > for
> > the community, and maybe it'll even get some people to actually go and
> > work on
> > these ideas so that we can improve the libraries that we have to work
> > with in
> > D. We can always use more help, and we definitely need a richer library
> > ecosystem for D. But even just discussing ideas could be of benefit.
> > 
> > So, what major functionality which we don't currently have would you
> > like
> > to
> > see in either Phobos or in a 3rd party library so that you could use it
> > in your D programs?
> 
> Off the top of my head: curl and xml

Fortunately, both of those are in the works. A curl wrapper is more or less 
ready for review as I understand it, so it could be in Phobos fairly soon, but 
I have no idea where the new std.xml stands.

- Jonathan M Davis