Starting D with a project in mind.

[Andrew]

Hi All,

I've been writing a MUD for a little while, initially using 
Haskell but now using C. I develop on MacOS X but deploy to a 
Raspberry Pi. I loved using Haskell especially using the Parsec 
parser but unfortunately I couldn't build on the Pi because the 
resource requirements were just too heavy.

Now I develop in C and the same Makefile builds on Mac and Debian 
equally well and of course I can use the lovely Xcode 
environment. However, as I start to add more advanced features 
it's getting rather tedious. The MUD has an embedded web server 
which supports web sockets for real time play and the back end is 
a Mongo DB. The C code to access DB is very repetitive and is 
slowing me down because of the lack of higher level constructs. 
Similarly the parser is very basic and ropey which needs 
attention.

Hence my interest in D. I've spent a few hours trying to get GDC 
working on my Pi which is proving to be a bitch but I'm hoping 
that it will be worth it.

Before I get too far down this path, would you recommend D for 
this task and will porting from Mac to Pi be seamless ?

Thanks

Andrew