On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 13:13:07 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
I've decided to write a web application using vibe and was shocked to see that dlang.org was using apache.
It is very common for real world web apps to run behind Apache, nginx, IIS, or another major production server.
These servers tend to be very efficient at front end tasks like load balancing, static file serving and cache management, standards compliance (including automatically up/down grading HTTP versions or TLS requirements), management, security (including handling horribly malformed requests) - stuff that can take megabytes of code to get right and is typically outside the scope of an application server.
Of course, they can also serve up different parts of a large website to different application servers transparently to the end user - e.g. one part in PHP, another part proxied to vibe.
BTW ironically, a lot of people complain that D DOES use its own web technology on the website: it is mostly statically generated ddoc!
