Future(s) for D.

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 21.06.2015 um 00:42 schrieb Ellery Newcomer:
> On 06/20/2015 07:00 AM, Etienne wrote:
>> On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 13:33:34 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>>> I recently read this facebook post on their future implementation in
>>>> their Folly library.
>>>>
>>>> https://code.facebook.com/posts/1661982097368498
>>>>
>>>> This made me slightly envious. Thoughts on a D implementation?
>>>
>>> Even if the callbacks are sequentially listed, the "callback hell" is
>>> still there.
>>>
>>> A better solution is to use fibers. You can take a look at a fibers[1]
>>> and tasks[2] implementation in asynchronous library[3].
>>>
>>> [1] -
>>> https://github.com/dcarp/asynchronous/blob/master/src/asynchronous/futures.d
>>>
>>>
>>> [2] -
>>> https://github.com/dcarp/asynchronous/blob/master/src/asynchronous/tasks.d
>>>
>>>
>>> [3] - http://code.dlang.org/packages/asynchronous
>>
>> Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't
>> fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
>> e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
>
> A while back I was bored and curious to see how vibe would fare in the
> web framework benchmarks (http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) so I
> started adding vibe to it
> (https://github.com/ariovistus/FrameworkBenchmarks).

I had also started with this some time ago, but didn't get far enough to 
dig through what's necessary to adjust the various setup and benchmark 
scripts:

https://github.com/s-ludwig/FrameworkBenchmarks

Would be great to get in there. BTW, I was using mysql-native to 
implement the database tests, but didn't ever actually run the benchmarks.

>
> Chose to go with ddb. Postgresql+asynchronous, sounds great. It didn't
> compile with the latest dmd at the time. So I fixed it up, made a PR,
> and it worked fine.
>
> It looked like I was getting results close to netty (in json
> serialization) without much effort, but ultimately, I set it aside to
> wait for my PR to be merged.
>
> what is the deal with ddb, anyways? Is it dead?