Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Adam Richardson]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> On 6/28/2011 11:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> I think it makes it hard when most of the pages are written in DDOC. It
>> doesn't
>> help to attract web designers.
>>
>
> I have no idea what professional web designers use, but I did many web
> pages using html in a regular text editor.
>
> It was awful.
>
> Using Ddoc literally doubled my productivity at creating web pages.
> Furthermore, I can easily change them. This came in really handy when David
> redid the look & feel.
>

HTML is a fantastic for crafting web pages (and many web developers have
IDE's that facilitate the process, although even a tool like text wrangler
is pretty handy.) The semantics of HTML (HTML5, microformats, WAI-ARIA,
RDFa, etc) are very rich and growing.

Using ddoc to automatically generate documentation for the API content
within the site seems wise. However, using ddoc for the entire website does
present some challenges.

I'll admit that I looked through to see what I could help out with on the
website, but ddoc stopped me in my tracks. I'll take time to learn how to
use D to build my next web framework, because D seems like a great tool for
the job. However, I'd rather not take the time to learn how to turn build
websites with ddoc, as it's just not built for web site development.

That said, David has shown that you can make great progress with just ddoc
(really, David, you've done fantastic work.)

Adam
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