DUB RC 0.9.24-rc.1 ready for testing

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 21 06:34:10 PDT 2015


On 7/21/15 9:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> At the first D meetup in the Silicon Valley, Vic (an accomplished
> entrepreneur who has been following up D'd path) discussed some ideas
> for improving D's adoption. He mentioned some other languages have
> improved adoption by means of a strong application (e.g. Rails for Ruby)
> and suggested we make vibe.d, which is one of D's most compelling
> publicly available applications, more prominent among D's toolchain. He
> mentioned that many folks start with the high-level need ("I need a web
> framework") and accept the language as an artifact.

Rails is not shipped with ruby. You have to install it separately. In 
fact, vibe.d follows almost the same model as rails (I may be sketchy on 
the details, still learning ruby/rails), with gem substituting for dub.

I think what we need is dub to be shipped with d (If it's not already).

-Steve


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