"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1978.1312090051.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >I think that it would be useful to query the community for what piece of > library functionality they don't currently have in D and would most like > to > see. For instance, there is no official logging framework in D or any 3rd > party > libraries which do it AFAIK. So, that could be one type of functionality > that > you may like to see. Now, there is a prospective implementation for > std.log > which shouldn't be all that far away from being reviewed, so listing that > here > wouldn't be all that useful, since it's on its way. But what other major > functionality do you miss in D that other languages' that you use have > available in their libraries? > > My hope here would be that we could get some good ideas going here such > that > we have can have a better idea what type of functionality it would be > particularly useful to be working on for Phobos or 3rd party D libraries > for > the community, and maybe it'll even get some people to actually go and > work on > these ideas so that we can improve the libraries that we have to work with > in > D. We can always use more help, and we definitely need a richer library > ecosystem for D. But even just discussing ideas could be of benefit. > > So, what major functionality which we don't currently have would you like > to > see in either Phobos or in a 3rd party library so that you could use it in > your D programs? >
Off the top of my head: curl and xml
