On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 09:35:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
However, it would make a lot of sense to just convert an existing XML solution with Boost license. I don't know which ones are any good, but RapidXML is at least Boost.
Given how D's arrays work, we have the opportunity to have an _extremely_ fast XML parser thanks to slices. It's highly unlikely that any C or C++ solution is going to be able to compete, and if it can, it's likely to be far more complex than necessary. Parsing is an area where we definitely should write our own stuff rather than porting existing code from other languages or use existing libraries in other languages via C bindings. Fast parsing is definitely a killer feature of D and the fact that std.xml botches that so badly is just embarrassing.
- Jonathan M Davis
