Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Radu" <rr at foo.bar> wrote in message news:ibe95h$gld$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 11/8/2010 11:45 PM, JFD wrote:
>>> A potential "mod_d" Apache module would go a long way to promote D 
>>> language to
>>> the web application world.
>>>
>>> But it seems that implementing a "mod_d" Apache module may require that 
>>> C
>>> instantiates a D language interpreter (similar to Py_NewInterpreter() 
>>> for
>>> Python), or do the functionality of RDMD with compiled code caching, but 
>>> in C.
>>>   Is that possible?  (Presumably it might be possible to hack up a 
>>> solution,
>>> but could there be an officially supported way?)
>>>
>>> I know that FastCGI with RDMD can do something similar, but a "mod_d" 
>>> should
>>> have higher system performance and scalability.
>>>
>>> Thank you.  D is the best!  Keep up the good work.
>>>
>>
>> My experience with Wt ( http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt ) was quite nice.
>>
>> Mind that its more than a simple template system and brings quite a few 
>> advanced idioms to the table like signal/slots, components, adaptive 
>> degradation for rendering ( uses Ajax and server push were available ).
>>
>>
>> They also have a nice set of ports for Java and Ruby, maybe D would fit 
>> nicely among them.
>>
>
> Very interesting. Reminds me of ASP.NET in that it tries to work at 
> "stateful widget" level, except (from a brief glance at the homepage) it 
> looks like it may actually pull it off and be something I could actually 
> trust. I'm definitely going to dig further into that.
>

Hmm, I see it's GPL, though. Maybe it's unwarranted, but GPL makes me 
*really* nervous.