D For A Web Developer

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 04:32:37 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 04:12 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via 
> Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> […]
>> Yea, I wrote my version several years ago (IIRC 2009 or early 
>> 2010) and since then D has grown as has my knowledge of it. I 
>> kinda want to write a web.d 2.0 that cleans everything up but 
>> eh I have a lot of things I want to do and web.d 1.0 works so 
>> no big rush.
>
> I disagree. The lesson from the Bottle/Flask/Tornado experience 
> over the
> last few years is that it is always better to be working on the 
> next
> version rather than just stick to maintaining the current 
> version.
>
> Yes for using 1.0 on the current jobs, but definitely yes to 
> starting on
> 2.0 now, especially if there are other to join in and help with 
> the
> work.
>
> Web is not my area per se and I don't have a web-related 
> project I can
> pin helping out with this effort on, but I would encourage you 
> to work
> on 2.0.
>
> I will have to be looking at Python's asyncio which is Python's 
> "play"
> in the arena that Twisted used to be king; more vibe.d than 
> web.d.

I've been working on Cmsed/Dvorm/Dakka specifically in the mind 
of a rather (major) web service. Haven't started it yet, but 
possibly next semester.
I'm of the opinion that we all need to work together to get a 
damn nice web service framework together.
I split up my ORM for this purpose so even if you don't want to 
use Cmsed you can use it at least. Won't be very nice for normal 
Vibe users though.

I really do want help, Dakka (Actor framework) needs somebody who 
knows threading/networking communication. I'll eventually get it 
communicating with other nodes but.. Will opensource if there is 
interest.

Dvorm needs work to make it be usable with relational databases. 
At worse that means I need OpenDBX dlls for 32/64bit (wasn't as 
easy to compile as I thought).
The hardest part really is how to handle indexes.

Cmsed needs documentation by the bucket load. Its also blocked at 
the moment on dub to make it sensible to do reloading of 
templates/routes/models. Which will change the way you structure 
it.

Cmsed is already at the point of comparable to other web service 
frameworks in most other languages.