On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:05:24 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > One would be a good pass of std.container, in particular (a) a design > review with the DbI glasses on; (b) better documentation - sadly it > seems to me so inadequate as to make containers themselves unusable; (c) > investigate use of UFCS - std.container's design predates UFCS yet is a > perfect fit for it, and most likely other cool language improvements > we've added since. > > The other would be database connectivity. Erik Smith has shown some cool > ideas at DConf, and I encourage him to continue working on them, but it > seems to me this is an area where more angles mean more connectivity > options.
My vote would be for containers. At EMSI we do make heavy use of MySQL but have our own idiomatic D wrapper around the C library and would have little incentive to switch to a generic ODBC implementation.
