Am 24.01.2016 um 14:57 schrieb krzaq:
On Sunday, 24 January 2016 at 12:20:44 UTC, nbro wrote:
I was wondering if D is a good language for web development. Which
serious with an active community web frameworks are there?
I have heard about vibe.d, but I am not convinced. I think that many
people do not start using D because it lacks of many serious tools for
real life applications development.
I'm afraid not, not for anything serious at least. The documentation is
okay, but not great; greatly lacking examples.
Have you seen the example projects?
https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/tree/master/examples
There is no built-in
support for any real database engines and if you try to use something
not built with vibe.d's fiber architecture in mind (even things from the
standard library, like std.process) you're in for a world of random locks.
I don't know which database engines are "real", but there are fully
vibe.d compatible drivers for at least MySQL, Postgres and Cassandra.
Built-in solutions are requested from time to time, but the plan is
actually to go into the opposite direction and make the MongoDB and
Redis clients separate libraries.
There are several means to integrate traditional I/O code:
http://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.core/createFileDescriptorEvent
http://vibed.org/api/vibe.stream.stdio/
https://gist.github.com/s-ludwig/8434299
But this is a general issue with asynchronous I/O. You either need to
use it throughout the application, or offload blocking I/O into a
separate thread. Whether those difficulties are worth the trade-off in
comparison to the performance gains is of course a decision you have to
make personally/per project.
I don't have pretty much any experience in webdev, but I tried RoR,
node.js and vibe.d. Let me say, the experience was not in the vibe.d's
favour.
