color console

[bubnenkoff]

Is it's possible to add for print ability to change console color? It's very handy and take different dependence for such small future it's not handy

[jasonwhite]

I have a need for printing colored text as well. At this point, I'm not sure if it would be better as a separate library or not. I think it might be required to implement it as part of io simply because Windows does console text coloring strangely. Other D libraries for this (e.g., colorize, consoled, rainbow) only work with std.stdio as far as I can tell.

I'm thinking the API would look something like this:

print("Hello".color(blue), " world!".color(green));

[bubnenkoff]

I really want to have it's as build-in future. It's very common task, and making it's as separate tool is not very handy. Even C# have build-in support of it.

Yeah this API is perfect! I like it.