On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 15:17:10 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On 2014-04-29 10:41 AM, James wrote:
I have a friend that is a web developer. I, however want to
collaborate
with him, so I am trying to get him to learn D. I don't know
how to
persuade him! How can D be used to greatly assist an
HTML5/JavaScript
web developer? I decided to go here to get some good answers.
How can D
be used to interopt with modern web development?
You should ask this in
http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.vibed/
But while we're here, maybe you could send him a link to
http://vibed.org/ along with a link to
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html that he could read
when he has 10 minutes
I don't know how else you could convince him. Possibly
benchmarks?
http://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/go-vs-d-vs-erlang-vs-c-in-real-life-mqtt-broker-implementation-shootout/
Or an example of a dynamic web project backend?
https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/tree/master/examples/web
He might not be so familiar with type safety though, so then
your arguments will have to be more technical - type safety is
the only way you can ever scale a project because most bugs are
caught by the compiler.
He can keep using his front-end libraries too. Browsers don't
run D code, they simply request bytes from it.
Good luck!
Agree. Give vibe.d a try. If your friend uses dub to build it, it
should be pretty easy to get started. A basic server app is very
simple and straight forward to implement with vibe.d. Once the
server is running he can use his existing html / js files (the
server app just, well, "serves" them), or he can do more fancy
script like stuff with diet templates:
http://vibed.org/docs#html-templates
and
http://vibed.org/templates/diet
And yes, vibe.d is by an order of magnitude faster than your
usual web infrastructures.
