Experience: Developing Cloud Foundry applications with D

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/10/15 12:29 AM, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 06:24:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/5/15 1:34 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>>
>>> Vibe.d has a provider called libasync. Libasync is fully implemented in
>>> D. You probably should have tried that at least.
>>> Although I still would recommend trying it ;) It's a lot better then
>>> what we have in Phobos.
>>
>> Cue choir asking for porting of libasync to phobos. I've first asked
>> this a couple of years ago. -- Andrei
>
> To be fair, libasync was release only october last year :)
>
> Will work on adding libasync to Phobos once I'm finished adding a few
> more features to my main project! (3-4 months). Will need to strip
> memutils, will you have std.allocator ready? Anyone is free to pick up
> this project and move libasync to phobos if ready before me. I've gotten
> this all-D web framework (vibe.d, botan-D TLS, D libhttp/2, etc) into
> production on my end and it works great!

I'm hoping as part of this we will be able to merge the platform 
abstraction out to something like: 
https://github.com/rikkimax/alphaPhobos/blob/master/source/std/experimental/platform.d#L10
That way windowing as well can take advantage of it :)