Re: Tiny Redis- a Redis driver for D

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:20:15 -0700 

On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 09:10:19 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:39 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

On 7/26/12 4:29 PM, Adil wrote:
> Announcing Tiny Redis.
>
> Tiny Redis is a Redis driver for the D programming language > (v2). The 
> api is minimalist and makes working with Redis trivial.
[snip]

Awesome! On reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/x7js2/tiny_redis_a_redis_driver_for_the_d_programming/
OK, but does this actually achieve anything to aid uptake of D? If D is 
to get traction, there should be a maintained page of validated
libraries and frameworks.
When people want to know things about a language they use Google and want links to pages other than things like GMane or Reddit. Actually put "dlang tiny redis" into Google and there is no mention of Reddit. OK so the first link is to this exchange in the forum (which is good), but the second link (for me when I did it, but as we know Google do an awful lot 
of anti-SEO) is to the Go libraries pages:
http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs

This page is not really the right one for Go these days,
http://godashboard.appspot.com/project is. The beauty of all this is I 
can do, for example:

go get github.com/mattn/go-gtk/gtk

and now I have access to the Go GTK API.

        package main

        import "github.com/mattn/go-gtk/gtk"

        func main ( ) {
                gtk.Init ( nil )
                window := gtk.Window ( gtk.GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL )
                window.SetTitle ( "Hello World." )
window.Connect ( "destroy" , func ( w *gtk.GtkWidget , userData string ) { gtk.MainQuit ( ) } , "Dummy string." ) 
                window.Add ( gtk.Label ( "Hello World." ) )
                window.ShowAll ( )
                gtk.Main ( )
        }
I wonder if having one person working on a package management system for D as a side-project is a missed opportunity for D. Putting more effort and resource into this aspect of D is probably far more constructive to 
traction than tinkering with the language, the compiler and
optimization.
I appreciate that GTK is actually something of a minority thing, but it stands as a great example of how Go has a core and a supported way of dealing with contributed extras. D has a core (Phobos) and a collection 
of emails and posts on forums.
I know actions speak louder than words but for the moment all my actions have to be with Python and Groovy in order to create income. If I could create income from D, I'd be doing less waffling here about D and more 
acting.
I second this proposal. My line of work, web and server-side development, routinely requires a mix of many libraries (ORMs, NoSQL apis, Social network API among others) that have many competing implementations and are constantly in the state of flux. Not to mention they change frequently from project to project.
Having a package manager that allows me to install a library with all its dependencies in one command eases development of server-side applications in D. It will make it more conducive to a lot of web/application developers to start using D in their projects, and hence introduce it into their organizations.

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