Reflection on the book D web development.

[bachmeier]

On Saturday, 21 November 2020 at 16:18:39 UTC, Alaindevos wrote:
> It's not my related to a lack of knowledge of the d-language 
> but the complexity of the vibe.d framework itself.
> What I understand are :
> 1: jade/diet .dt templates, inheritance,includes,markdown.
> 2: A simple form with POST method.
> Then it stops.
> What I find too complex:
> - Sessions, session data , session variables
> - Handler functions and delegates, compile-time reflection, 
> prefixes, annotation.
> - Authentication
> - Validating user input
> This can be improved by improving documentation in very small 
> steps.
>
> As comparison here a tutorial of ruby-flask which uses only 
> small steps so everything can easily and completely be 
> understood.
> Something like that for vibe.d would be very interesting.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mwFC4SHY-Y

May or may not be related, but I eventually gave up on that book 
myself. It felt as if it were written for experienced web 
developers wanting to use D for things they were doing in other 
languages. It's been a long time now, though, so I don't recall 
anything specific.