++Phobos

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On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 17:20:28 UTC, berni44 wrote:
> In the feedback thread H. S. Teoh is talking about that we need 
> a new/better version of Phobos. I remember having read the same 
> in a comment on some PR recently. How would this better version 
> look like? Is there allready any picture of what we do want? 
> One says, if you don't know the goal, all paths are the wrong 
> ones...
>
> A few things that I remember from various sources:
>
> * Some improvement in the realm of ranges.
> * Replacement of some old modules. (std.xml, std.outbuffer, 
> std.socket, what else?)
> * Adding some missing modules (std.eventloop, std.database, 
> what else?)
> * Unifying some modules (everything covering selfinspection, 
> like std.traits and so on, whar else?)
>
> Anything more?

I'd like Phobos to be something like Go's stdlib in a sence that 
a lot of the stuff needed for day to day programming would be 
builtin. Crypto stuff, compression stuff, https stuff and etc.