NuLib is an alternative standard library for the D Programming Language, this standard library focuses on allowing use of high level D constructs without a garbage collector. Additionally these constructs try but are not guaranteed to work with phobos constructs to some extent.
In practice this allows you to write mixed GC and no-gc code depending on your needs at any given time,
with nulib building ontop of numem for portability. Additionally nulib can be used with nurt to go
fully no-gc; with the alternate runtime providing the core required hooks for many D language features.
The following packages/modules are provided by NuLib.
| Package | Module | Description | Supported Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
nulib |
nulib |
Core NuLib library | All |
nulib:io |
nulib.io |
File and Network IO | 🪟🍎🐧 |
nulib:system |
nulib.system |
System Integration | 🪟🍎🐧 |
nulib:threading |
nulib.threading |
Threading and synchronisation primitives | 🪟🍎🐧 |
nulib:compression |
nulib.compression |
Compression algorithms. | 🪟🍎🐧 |
D is an amazing language which bridges both high and low level programming, however with how D's runtime is constructed, it can be difficult to use DLang outside of its own ecosystem; namely because its runtime and garbage collector makes cross-language interopability difficult.
The Nu series of libraries aim to fill this gap by both providing tools for users of libphobos and the D ecosystem, and also providing tools for developers who wish to write libraries used from outside of D.