Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 18 10:13:53 PST 2015


On 1/18/15 7:24 AM, 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 agree with you, of course.

But more than anything, you need a real designer.


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