On Sunday 31 July 2011 01:53:25 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.1978.1312090051.14074.digitalmar...@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