On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 04:02:58 UTC, Puming wrote:
There maybe another traditional approach, by converting the .dt diet templates directly into D source code BEFORE the actuall compilation. That is the way many other HTML template systems use, and the performance is fairly good.
It is somewhat complicated by the very tight integration between D handler host and Diet - you can expose D symbols for rendering context to template. It is still possible to do it that way but is likely to require more efforts and effectively will just to the same thing as good JIT-ed CTFE should. I don't like it because it is too effort-demanding for a quick hack and not suitable in the long term by design (one of D goals was to remove reliance on external build steps as much as possible)
