critique of vibe.d

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On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 21:07:26 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:28:42 +0000
> schrieb "Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv>:
>
>> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 17:05:21 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> > Completely off-topic, but:
>> >
>> > Have you considered making vibe http-backend independent?
>> > So that it could provide a fcgi interface or be included in 
>> > an nginx
>> > plugin?
>> 
>> What is the benefit as opposed to using proxy_pass at nginx? 
>> fcgi will be slower than built-in vibe.d HTTP server.
>
> FCGI was only an example. I guess the only benefit is that the 
> webserver
> can spawn fcgi backends when it starts and files with certain
> extensions can be handled with these backends.
>
> But that's of course only useful with shared libraries / pages.

vibe.d can do it internally by having different routes for 
different file types and doing dynamic load if desired. Being 
100% independent of HTTP server frontend is a big feature in my 
opinion.