Web development status

[Hasan Aljudy]

Antti Holvikari wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Antti Holvikari wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I've searched and searched for some stuff about web development in D
>> > but have found almost nothing. What is the status of the CGI module[1]
>> > that Marten wrote (the link on that page is broken)? Or should I go
>> > with Mango?
>> >
>> > Has anyone done any webapps with D?
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?CGI
>> >
>>
>> I wish we'd have a framework similar to Django, however, come to think
>> of it .. I'd rather use Django than wait for a D clone .. which I don't
>> think can be more powerful since D doesn't have any dynamic reflection
>> capabilities.
> 
> Hmm, hope I'm not missing something here but why would you need
> reflection for that?
> 

Well, We don't need it to make a server in D, but if we want to make a 
powerful framework for web applications, I'd say reflection is a must.

Maybe I don't understand Reflection very well, but there are things in 
Django that'd only be possible in a dynamic language, or a language with 
   good Reflection capabilities.