On Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 15:24:35 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 13/06/2025 2:36 AM, drenoob wrote:
>> So, I shouldn't trust libs that are in the offical dub repo? Strange and sad..
>
> The dub registry is no different than nuget's or npm's.
>
> Unless its shipped with the compiler it is naturally lower (if any) trust.

Well, I guess I learned that now. But then: *is* there a place where one can find stable/mature/maintained and/or trustworthy D libs?

OK, in my case falling for a, let me call it questionable, lib was desastrous because *of course* it makes a language look not exactly great when right at the get-go one walks into a "trap".
But I guess I'm not the only one who, to a major degree came to D because I wanted a *mature* tool (and "universe"), and probably quite many would value a place where one hadn't to play lottery but could find reasonably reliable libs.

Btw, are there any more or less agreed upon standards re (lib) docu here in the D-lang community? I'm asking because that (largely non existing lib docu) was one of the major reasons I gave up on another language with plenty "funny" experiments but precious little one could actually work with wrt docu (and rely upon).

Be that as it may, I thank you.

On Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 16:00:20 UTC, drenoob wrote:
> Btw, are there any more or less agreed upon standards re (lib) docu here in the D-lang community? I'm asking because that (largely non existing lib docu) was one of the major reasons I gave up on another language with plenty "funny" experiments but precious little one could actually work with wrt docu (and rely upon).
>
> Be that as it may, I thank you.

I'm not sure what do you mean..
Did you check the official web-site?
There are a lot of docs regarding the language and standard library (name Phobos):

https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html
https://dlang.org/phobos/index.html

Regarding docs for 3rd party libs - it depends on the author of the lib - if provide the documentation. Usually they are putting some description into github or separate page.

You can search them here: https://code.dlang.org

There is no "recommended and maintained list of packages".
DLF doesn't want to do that.. Mostly because D doesn't have any resources..
It is trying to do the best with almost 0 resources.
So I would recommend just to ask here in "Learn" place or come to Discord and ask there which library you want.
Search functionality on dub is working.. but working pretty badly and has several issues
But Discord people know **all packages** that D's ecosystem has - so they will help you with any request :)

On Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 21:13:31 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> I'm not sure what do you mean..
> Did you check the official web-site?
> There are a lot of docs regarding the language and standard library (name Phobos):
>
> https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html
> https://dlang.org/phobos/index.html
>

I didn't doubt the "quality of the on board batteries" of D but of (some? many?) third party libraries.

> Regarding docs for 3rd party libs - it depends on the author of the lib - if provide the documentation. Usually they are putting some description into github or separate page.
>
> You can search them here: https://code.dlang.org
>
> There is no "recommended and maintained list of packages".
> DLF doesn't want to do that.. Mostly because D doesn't have any resources..
> It is trying to do the best with almost 0 resources.
> So I would recommend just to ask here in "Learn" place or come to Discord and ask there which library you want.
> Search functionality on dub is working.. but working pretty badly and has several issues
> But Discord people know **all packages** that D's ecosystem has - so they will help you with any request :)

Thank you