On 3/31/2012 4:23 PM, Davita wrote:
One general comment: Lots of people ask for the stuff you're asking
for. Progress is being made on all the relevant fronts, slowly but surely.
1) Database libs/ORMs.
I think Steve Teale is working on something for this, but I don't know
the details or how much progress is being made.
2) mature UI library (vector based ,declarative or at least to support
styling like Qt stylesheet).
I think QtD is now usable since the relevant compiler bugs were ironed out.
3) Crypto libs for hashing and with asymmetric algorithm implementations.
You would probably be best off linking to a C library for this. The
headers are in Deimos. https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/openssl
4) XML libraries for generating and parsing xml docs. Although XSD
validation support and XSL transforms.
Phobos has a pretty rudimentary XML lib. Tango's been ported to D2,
though. You could try it. https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2
5) networking libs with several main protocol implementations such as
Http, FTP and SMTP.
std.net.curl was just added to the latest Phobos release.
6) and of course, RAD styled IDE.
Visual D might do what you want.
Those are the minimum of my requirements in order to start development
for a platform. So guys, what do you think, will D be useful for me? :-)
P.S. what happened to Qt bindings? I saw that it was abandoned. Maybe
working with trolltech/Nokia team to integrate D in QtCreator and
creating and maintening Qt's D bindings would be the most awesome
decision, but how achievable is it? :)
I personally don't use QtD, so I don't know where it's hosted, but a lot
of stuff that was on dsource has moved to Github. If it looks abandoned
on dsource, it may have been migrated.
