An IO Streams Library

[Jason White via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 01:59:43 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> Actually I think there are plenty of use cases not implemented.
> Done properly as a full replacement and rework of Phobos will 
> mean you need to do almost everything in e.g. std.stdio and 
> std.socket but with better abstractions.

I think I'll tackle implementing sockets next. I might need that 
for another project of mine.

Once this gets polished enough, it would be great to eventually 
replace those modules in Phobos. However, it would be difficult 
to do this without compatibility breakages. For example, since 
std.stdio.File uses FILE* under the covers and this uses plain 
old file descriptors, programs that rely on that behavior would 
break.

> Of course your goal may not be inline with my assertions of 
> reworking Phobos. So feel free to ignore, it just would be a 
> shame since it really needs some love.

My primary goal is to provide a more useful and powerful IO 
library than what Phobos provides since that is what I need for 
my other projects. That goal is not necessarily counter to 
reworking Phobos. ;)