Where will D sit in the web service space?

Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 23 03:32:34 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 10:24:18 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 23/07/2015 10:16 p.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> [...]
>> Though it seems like D is already be moving in that direction. 
>> Color and
>> image being worked on,
>
> We need image for a lot more then just game dev. Without it, we 
> will never get a GUI toolkit. Web dev will also suffer, barcode 
> generation anyone?
>
>>allocators and less reliance on GC, and all the
>
> Any high performance program including web development requires 
> allocators and friends. In fact, right now allocators are the 
> only way to do web development in D properly. With having each 
> request able to allocate things temporarily and have it auto 
> deallocate without the GC being a burden.
>

Thats the great part about focusing on game dev, is that it's 
needs are so applicable to other domains.

> Gl3n, we need to get that into Phobos. My knowledge of math 
> isn't good enough to do it. But it should already be pretty 
> reliable on that side of things. It just need to be modified to 
> Phobos standards/requirements.
>
> It's an old library, but a damn good one. We would be stupid to 
> not get it in. People are remaking it poorly as it is.
>
> https://github.com/Dav1dde/gl3n

Yeah, even I have my own personal matrix lib, but like you said, 
a poor remake.


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