Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/8/10 9:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:ibaepi$vfh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> People at Facebook told me that the adoption of D inside the company might
>> be helped if they could simply write<?d ... ?>  to insert D code into a
>> page. I'm not sure how difficult such a plugin would be to implement.
>
> I'm very suprised by that. That's become considered very bad style by most
> of the [professional] web dev world quite awhile ago, and for very good
> reason. Rails-, django- and even ASP.NET-style "pass variables into an HTML
> template" approaches have proven to be...well...frankly, much less shitty.

I'm simplifying matters a fair amount. Indeed mixing php with hardcoded 
html has been mostly removed from the code base. The point remains that 
easily writing D code that gets executed to load a page would be a boon.

Andrei