Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Radu]

On 11/10/2010 10:47 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>  wrote in message
> news:ibev09$1vf5$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> "Radu"<rr at foo.bar>  wrote in message news:ibe95h$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.
>
>

This wasn't a show stopper for me, but I can see your point. There are 
quite a few of nice things engineered in that framework and usually 
delivers what it claims.

If license is an issue a similar D framework can mimic those nice traits 
Wt has.

/Radu