On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:40:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Any idea how far away it might be from being something that someone could use in an enterprise environment simply, in the same kind of way that vibed is easy? I appreciate that making it broadly usable may not be what interests you, and may be a project for someone else.
I would say 3 months. So it'll probably be a year considering how off my last estimates were. Of course, I never calculated any help (and haven't gotten any really)
Any chance you could write a bit more on this? Your personal story and why you believe this. We could post on the Wiki as part of a series of narratives on people who have found D helpful. Stories are a powerful complement to just ticking off features.
I started off as a C, C#, Javascript & PHP programmer with 6 years of experience, building mostly e-commerce and information systems on a contractual basis. One day, I decided I had enough and wanted to invest my time in a faster web engine because I was tired of seeing all those slow and bloated libraries that can barely serve 10 requests per second when they're put to any practical use.
I decided to go for C++ and learn everything I could about writing an integrated solution. I found interesting libraries but everytime I wanted to add a feature, I'd have to import another library and it again became bloated but in terms of code base. Nothing seemed to work together (Qt & Boost?).
The D programming language came up frequently in search results when looking for C++-related concepts, and I saw everything I needed in Phobos. The language features seemed similar at first but I quickly realized how much more convenient the language was as a whole and it felt much like a managed language overall.
Even the vibe.d library was much more advanced than what I could find with an open source license that allowed static compilation at the time (1 yr 1/2 ago), so I went forward with that and worked my way through. The most interesting part is that everytime I had a problem, I never had to google the error from the compiler because it was quite straightforward. I did have to debug the memory a lot but all the tools from C/C++ work for that.
So now I can build a full web application/server executable in less than 2mb packed, and it runs faster than anything out there. It's standalone, works cross-platform, etc. I really have to put the blame on the language for the speed at which this very large project was finished. I completed the STL-equivalent memory library, TLS/crypto security library, the low-level async TCP library, the HTTP/2 implementation and the integration of everything in a web application framework within about 10 months. I learned the language for about 6 months through that coming from a background more familiar with managed languages. I can't say D isn't meant for large projects, it's a really fucking solid language that was built for the future.
