"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.vpxkvij9eav7ka@steve-laptop... > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:25:10 -0500, Fab <fab-cod...@web.de> wrote: > >> Are there any continued database projects? > > AFAIK, there is very little DB support (which will definitely need to be > addressed before D is considered a complete language) for D2. However, > you *always* have support via C bindings. D has zero-overhead binding to > C functions, all you need to do is port the declarations to D. > > If you are using D1, there are several projects, I don't think many of > them are up to date: > > http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DatabaseBindings >
Adam Ruppe and Piotr Szturmaj have recently been working on some database stuff. See the recent thread "Can your programming language do this?" >> So - is there any reason to change to D? I would ... I really would >> change if >> there were more points than a nice language. I don't buy a good car if >> it's to >> expensive - so: is D as precious as its pretend to be? > > I will warn you, once you start using D, you will not want to use > something else. I cringe every day when I have to use PHP for work. > So very true :) > I would say it is not ready for prime-time yet. It has a way to go, but > some have managed to build pretty impressive applications from it. So it > would depend on your application. > Personally, I think that even though D still has some things to be worked out, I think it's *still* far better than any of the other more mature languages.