petalc/ecosystem.md

Petal ecosystem

Standard library

This packages together the runtime and the core libraries. I want to be able to do the bulk of what I currently tend to do in D. That means:

• collection types
• collection-oriented things (map/reduce etc) (and string equivalents)
• database interface
• dates and times
• files
• filesystem
• http client
• json
• logging
• process handling
• random numbers
• regular expressions (just bind libpcre?)
• sockets
• string encoding
• string formatting
• threading
• uuids
• xml

Package management

Use maven as the backend.

You depend on specific versions of packages. You can override your dependencies’ dependencies.

So I have libawesome-2.0.5 that depends on libx11-7.8.14. You have libbetter-5.0.1 that depends on libawesome-2.0.5 and libx11-7.9.12. I have an app that depends on libbetter-5.0.1. It gets libx11-7.9.12.

Build system

I want to integrate with something standard and generic. Maybe bazel?

Editor support

Start with a vim syntax file. Go for a language server as soon as reasonably practical. I think LSP supports syntax highlighting.

Binding generator

We want a binding generator for native libraries. At the very least, support GIR.