"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:ibam3u$1b5...@digitalmars.com... > On 11/8/10 9:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message >> news:ibaepi$vf...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> People at Facebook told me that the adoption of D inside the company >>> might >>> be helped if they could simply write<?d ... ?> to insert D code into a >>> page. I'm not sure how difficult such a plugin would be to implement. >> >> I'm very suprised by that. That's become considered very bad style by >> most >> of the [professional] web dev world quite awhile ago, and for very good >> reason. Rails-, django- and even ASP.NET-style "pass variables into an >> HTML >> template" approaches have proven to be...well...frankly, much less >> shitty. > > I'm simplifying matters a fair amount. Indeed mixing php with hardcoded > html has been mostly removed from the code base. The point remains that > easily writing D code that gets executed to load a page would be a boon. >
I see. Although I haven't had a chance to start on it yet, one of my top "pet project" priorities isto take Adam Rupee's web-related code and turn it into a rails/django-like thing. It's been by dream for far too long now to use D for my web development work.