Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-29 10:29, Walter Bright 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.

That *is* awful. I use Ruby on Rails with the following languages (and 
what they compile to):

HAML -> HTML
SASS -> CSS
CoffeeScript -> JavaScript

And Ruby of course.

> 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.
>
> For example, I am able to create the C++ manuals for the Kindle and the
> digitalmars.com web pages from the exact same source text, simply by
> using a different set of .ddoc macros.
>
> (Although you can supposedly convert html directly to Kindle books, in
> reality you'll discover you need to put out different html than you
> would for web display.)
>

I would say DDoc is good for writing documentation but not for web pages.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg