Vladimir Panteleev Wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:27:28 +0200, Alexander Pánek > <a.pa...@brainsware.org> wrote: > > > D as server-side was once something I tried to achieve, but it wasn't > > the right time. It would have been perfect as backend for a full-blown > > JS browser app, only handling & shuffling data around, sending JSON back > > and forth. > > I've done this. I wrote three web-apps (HTML/CSS, JS+jQuery and D). It's > awesome. > > Two of the three are private, but here's the simplest one I wrote in 2006 > (no jQuery): > http://snoop.worms2d.info/ (basically web IRC client)
Nice nice! > D really hits the spot here, though. The apps' backends needed to be > persistent and fast (things like searching through growable memory-mapped > files), so CGI-like languages (PHP/Perl) were no good. With D's inline > struct types and a JSON serializer, returning JSON is really clean and > easy, which isn't possible in mainstream compiled languages: > > if (resource == "/getfoo") > { > struct FooResult { int n; string s; } > return toJSON(FooResult(42, "bar")); // {"n":42,"s":"bar"} > } That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! :D