Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/18/15 6:32 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Lately Andrei has worked a lot with improving the dlang.org site in
>> various ways. To me it getting more clear and clear that Ddoc is not
>> the right tool for building a web site. Especially the latest
>> "improvement" [1] shows that it's not a good idea to reinvent the
>> wheel, especially when it's not an improvement, at all.
>>
>> Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the server
>> side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on Rails but I
>> know that most of you here would hate that so a better suggestion
>> would probably be vibe.d. For the client side I'm thinking Bootstrap
>> and jQuery.
>>
>> The biggest reason why I would prefer Rails is because I know
>> everything that is needed is already implemented and easily available.
>> I can not say the same thing about vibe.d. But it might be enough for
>> dlang.org, I don't know.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m9f558$lbb$1@digitalmars.com
>
> I started to experiment with this. The problem we'll get is that DDOC is
> not used only for the website. It generates kindle / mobi / pdf.
> So I see 3 paths here:
> 1) Implement support for generating the existing target using Vibe.d.
> 2) Use DDOC pages as the content, and make Vibe.d use that.
> 3) Get rid of the other targets, and distribute Ali's book to those who
> want offline references.
>
> IMO 1) is way too much work and too few benefit, 2) seems brittle, so I
> would go with 3. But we would have to get Andrei and Walter's approval.

I don't know. So what would be the replacement? BTW turns out that 
dlangspec.pdf is downloaded quite a bit. -- Andrei