Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Unknown W. Brackets]

Speaking as a professional at what you're talking about, there's not a 
chance it would.

I will say that the company I work for would ask no less than $40k to do 
a site like digitalmars.com/d, but that's still only 400 hours of work 
(give or take.)  After that you're normally talking about it reading a 
database, files or protocols from other softwares, or even flat files 
for those who like that.... and that is something anyone can do.

Even if it did require a part time, or even full time, position in 
itself - if that's what D needs, why is that a problem?  I can guarantee 
you that you'll find enough volunteers if you're worried about cost.

If you're worried about efficiency, I've worked on stuff that've gone on 
ABC's website etc., and I can promise you this is a solved problem as 
well.  Sure, it has to be done right, but this is true of anything.

Just my opinion.

-[Unknown]


Walter Bright wrote:
> Unknown W. Brackets Wrote:
>> As a side note, I work for a web company, and we use PHP primarily
>> - which language I do like.  But it would be cool to see D eat its
>> own dogfood here, and host the website on its own, lightweight
>> webserver with D-coded dynamic pages.  This wouldn't be hard to
>> write at all, and would really show the versatility of D (as well
>> as efficiency, assuming it handled load well.)  Maybe not
>> practically the best, though.
> 
> The web pages are all static. Not that they have to be, but doing a 
> dynamically generated site the size of digitalmars.com would probably be 
> a full time job in itself.