D Web Services Application Potential?

[Etienne Cimon via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-07-25 18:47, Brandon Ragland wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Not entirely certain if there is a decent D web applications server
> implementation as of yet, but if there is a project going on, I'd love
> to have a gander.
>
> On the off-chance there isn't one, who would be interested in going at
> it, call it, a 'group' project.
>
> I've been yearning for a D web app server for a while, as most of my day
> to day work is done on Java EE containers (think Glassfish, Weblogic,
> etc. Java Beans, lalala) and the insane system usage has bothered me
> from day one.
>
> There's Wt for C++, although I don't see much coming from that, though
> the concept is grand. Rust has a few up and coming web server frameworks
> as well.
>
> D could really excel here.
>
> -Thoughts? Am I crazy (probably)?
>
>

Not crazy. I've been working towards exactly that as hard I could (see 
on https://github.com/etcimon/), seeing how D would be the best language 
to write any web backend with. I've since worked on writing all the 
architecture in D: a new TLS library Botan, along with libhttp2 for 
HTTP/2 support and an async event loop 
(TCP/UDP/FileSystem/FileWatcher/DNS/Timers) library.

I've written all the "glue" code to have it in the vibe.d framework and 
tested it as thoroughly as I could. I now consider it an achievement and 
use it in my web applications.

I'm currently concentrating on improving an async postgresql driver 
called DDB and adding transactions, Json, TLS, Listen/Notify, etc.

I think my next priority would be to rewrite the back-end of 
http://www.cosmocms.org with D and the vibe.web.web Web Interface, and 
Redis+Postgresql (sessions in redis). It's about 4k-5k LOC

I think a good and necessary library would be for cross-platform, async 
DNS. I've been looking at this one in particular: 
https://github.com/miekg/dns