On Sunday, 1 January 2017 at 03:24:31 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I've seen a lot of talk on the forums over the past year about
the need for database support in the D Standard Library and I
completely agree. At the end of the day the purpose of any
programming language and its attendant libraries is to allow
the developer to solve their problems quickly and efficiently;
and a large subset of those solutions require some form of
structured data store. To my mind, this makes some form of
interface(s) to a data-store an essential component of the D
Standard Library. And since this is something that my
particular problem spaces also need, I thought it would be
useful to attempt to do something about it.
The only thing I want, database related, in the standard library
is the API! - Nothing else! There should be a standard
implementation of that API (libd-db.so for an example), but it
should be separated from Phobos. In general, Phobos should only
contain the APIs in my humble opinion.
We should handle XML processing the same way (API in Phobos,
libd-xml.so for the reference implementation), Image processing
the same way, GUI, etc...
Why? Phobos is enormous already!
