There has been some work on the serialization front:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/std.serialization
I don't think std.serialization can read/write directly from/to a
socket. It seems to me that a generalized stream interface is
required to achieve this.
There has also been some work recently on buffered streams (input
only) that supports minimal data copying:
"[RFC] I/O and Buffer Range"
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
It's still in early stages, but it looks like a good design so
far.
In short: There is no good replacement for std.stream yet. You
might just have to use it in the meantime.
