D For A Web Developer

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/29/2014 11:55 AM, Etienne wrote:
> On 2014-04-29 11:27 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I recently started a Ruby on Rails job and using it makes me really,
>> really miss the high productivity and ease of use D offers. (And, of
>> course, a dynamic site in D runs about 3x faster out of the box than
>> hello world served by Rails, zero effort in optimization. And "rake
>> test", just shoot me, I'd rather rebuild a C++ project from scratch, at
>> least that'll finish before the heat death of the universe.)
>
> That's funny b/c most people say RoR made them love web development. If
> the D community could organize itself the same way RoR is around web
> dev, I doubt any other web scripting language could pursue existence.

Ruby on Rails popularized MVC web frameworks, and that was a significant 
step forward from the stuff that came before, like PHP, ASP or even 
arguably ASP.NET (or *shudder* ColdFusion). I think that's always been 
RoR's main benefit and appeal.

But since then, every other language under the sun (or rather, under 
florescent lights?) has grown its own MVC web framework, so Rails's 
biggest distinguishing characteristic now is just that it's in Ruby. And 
Ruby is kinda famous for having little significance outside of Rails 
itself. (Although, I did find Rake quite beneficial in an older project 
with a rather complex build. Course, these days D/Phobos has gotten good 
enough I'd just do a build script in D.)

At least that's my impression of Ruby and Rails.