Having "blessed" 3rd party libraries may make D more popular and stable for building real software.

[Mike Shah]

On Tuesday, 1 July 2025 at 02:08:57 UTC, WraithGlade wrote:
> There's a trend I've noticed among some of the newer 
> programming languages that have managed to grow their 
> communities despite being so small: some of them have partial 
> official support for one or more of the most useful 3rd party 
> libraries.
>
> [...]

It's not a bad idea to have a list of libraries for different 
categories to help beginners. C++ has boost for example, which I 
have always seen as the first extension of the standard libraries 
that folks use and trust (and then often get incorporated into 
the standard library later on). I think the new phobos 3 as I 
understand is quite open to adding more modules anyway.

At the least, having a list of popular dub packages would be 
useful as a test-suite for new builds of the compiler. Maybe 
that's the place to start by building a testsuite with a few 
popular dub libraries. If there isn't a wiki page already on 
this, that would be another value-add to the community I'm sure.