Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Thursday, July 26, 2012 19:52:53 Paulo Pinto wrote: > > What prevents me to use D besides toy projects is the lack of libraries. > > Due to my time constraints I must use off the shelf libraries. > > Yeah. That's a big problem, which is part of why Walter and Andrei have tried > to push Deimos. But it's also a problem that should go away over time, even > if > it's happening frustratingly slowly at this point. > > However, I _was_ pleasantly surprised the other day when I figured out the > other day that someone had already created a D parser for YAML ( > https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML ). I needefd one and was expecting to have > to write it (which I was actually kind of looking forward to, since I love > parsers, but it's nice to have it without having to do all of the work to get > it - especially when I'm already short on time). So, there are at least > _some_ > libraries written in D which are floating around, just nowhere near enough.
Since we do not have many libraries we should do a better job at promoting the ones we have. Currently it's even difficult to find the existing ones. Jens