Is D a useful programming language for the web?

[Chad J]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> D's great for web, *if*, as the programmer, you're lucky enough to have a 
> high degree of control over the server. Usually you aren't that lucky. Which 
> actually happens to be one of the main motivating factors for my Goldie 
> project ( http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie ). Eventually I want to get 
> it to a point where it can handle languages like D and PHP, and have a 
> strong, ultra-flexible and generalized AST system that knows how to emulate 
> one set of language features with some other set of language features, so I 
> can automate translation from whatever the hell language I want (say, D) to 
> whatever the hell language I want (say, PHP). ...

You sir, are a hero.

Question though, why not just have llvm emit code in another language?