Introducing vibe.d!

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 27.04.2012 0:46, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> During the last few months, we have been working on a new
> framework for general I/O and especially for building
> extremely fast web apps. It combines asynchronous I/O with
> core.thread's great fibers to build a convenient, blocking
> API which can handle insane amounts of connections due to
> the low memory and computational overhead.
>
> Some of its key fatures are:

In short: meet the new boss of the web development :)

Few things I think worth looking at.
1. Add cool auto-magic API generator in Adam's style:
route.wrapModule!(module_name)("/url");
The effect is that it "binds" /url/function_name for each function found 
in module, automatically gets parameters from post (or get) using 
arguments names of function. Last but not least it issues necessary 
calls to std.conv.to as needed.
Ah and the result is again converted to string (if needed) and packed 
into response body.

Example:
module factorial;

long fact(int k)
{
	return k > 1 ? k*fact(k-1) : 1;
}

Wrapped via wrapModule!(factorial)("/"); will work as
/fact?k=10 will out the result in plain-text. MIME type and conversion 
should be configurable of course.

2. By the very nature of your framework you should be well prepared to 
small-scale DDoS attacks.  But there is much more in DoS assortment 
these days. It would be shame if your framework doesn't handle e.g. 
slow-writer attack. Imagine attacker spoon-feeds HTTP request to your 
server by 1 byte per 10msec. Bump simultaneous request count to few 
thousands and your nice event loop freezes to a crawl. You gotta check 
upload rates ;)

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky