Redesign of dlang.org

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 15:49:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/18/14, 8:30 AM, David Gileadi wrote:
>> It does mean that the site is static HTML, so any dynamism 
>> needs to be
>> JS-only (and I think any efforts to make the pages largely 
>> JS-driven
>> would meet resistance).
>
> We can (and probably should) integrate server-side scripting as 
> well. http://dlang.org/bugstats uses PHP. Ideally we'd migrate 
> the entire website to vibe.d.
>
> Andrei

I assume moving from DDoc to something like Vibe'd's Jade 
templates isn't on the table (for reasons such as losing the spec 
ebook generation and others). The only advantage I can think of 
with moving to vibe.d is if ddox were used for the entire site 
and would manage the regeneration of pages automatically, pulling 
from github itself. Then any pull request that a reviewer merges 
could trigger a site update.

With more frequent updates, D-P-L/dlang.org would need to 
properly use version branches to avoid having prerelease changes 
but that's a change that's been needed for a long time. I'm not 
sure if ddox was intended for something like this though (static 
pages, as opposed to just documentation generation). Sönke would 
probably have to weigh in and say if there is any real advantage 
here. Making stuff "Powered by D" is always a nice change though.