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Boost Inspired Projects

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spiritd - "A port of boost::spirit (classic) to D. For d1/d2" (

announcement)

spiritd - "A port of boost::spirit (classic) to D. For d1/d2" (

announcement)

These are D projects that were inspired by or are comparable to a

Boost library (the Boost project is a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries).

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Boost Libraries

any

bind

intrusive

python

serialization

signals

spirit

variant

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Boost Libraries

any

variant-type library (D port of boost::any)
Announcement (and download): NG:digitalmars.D.announce/4827
Author: Marcin Kuszczak

bind

template library similar to boost::bind
Announcement: NG:digitalmars.D.announce/4116
Download: http://h3.team0xf.com/Bind.d
Author: Tomasz Stachowiak ("h3r3tic")

I don't know how similar it is to boost:bind, but Phobos now has a bind module:

std.bind. -- JustinCalvarese

: It's pretty similar, as it's the original Bind (which was inspired by boost::bind) updated to use variadic templates, with added inout/out and default parameters support. std.bind is the same as the bind2.zip download - Tom

intrusive

Nova "contains template classes for intrusive datastructures in the spirit of boost::intrusive" ( DsourceTopic:1497).

python

PyD: "analogous" to Boost::Python. See also: PythonD

serialization

Projects similar to boost::serialization

DsourceProject:doost

  Almost all features of Boost serializer are implemented in similar (but extended) manner. 
  Only serialization of objects from base class reference is still waiting implementation.

DsourceProject:serialization

  "It has far less features than boost::serialization but is already in a very usable state: 
  FreeUniverse, a D game based on the Arc library, uses it for writing and loading savegames 
  as well as other persistant state information." ( NG:digitalmars.D.announce/5316)

signals

Signal Slots library (inspired by boost::signals)
Announcement: NG:digitalmars.D.announce/4825
Author: Lutger Blijdestijn

(I don't know how similar it is to boost::signals, but Phobos now has a signals module:

std.signals.)

spirit

spiritd - "A port of boost::spirit (classic) to D. For d1/d2" ( announcement)
dparser: "It supports |, ?, * and +. The input looks a lot like BNF as well." ( NG:digitalmars.D/49900)
part of Dbuild

Dbuild is an attempt at a comprehensive build solution for D. It used an implementation of Boost::Spirit in D ( http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsp/trunk/misc/dbuild/parser/). (dead link)
Dbuild was "mothballed" due to the quality of "vastly superior" Bud (formerly known as "Build") ( DsourceTopic:497)

part of Apropos

"I've done something somewhat like Spirit for D already, though it's admittedly much weaker and slower due to its use of polymorphism instead of expression templates. (it's part of Apropos: http://andy.tadan.us/d)" (dead link) ( NG:digitalmars.D/10105)