How can D Forum load so fast?

Fri Mar 10 01:08:16 PST 2017

On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 09:00:15 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 08:05:27 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 07:51:30 UTC, Anon wrote:
>>> How can they achieve such result?
>>
>> By not using tons of java-script libraries.
>
> Not having it bogged down certainly makes a huge difference. I 
> can't stand that websites want to be 2Mb per page to view it, 
> and then have a bunch of JS in the background to do very little 
> beneficial work.
>
>  I'd rather we backtrack to more basic Apache/PHP/MySQL and 
> minimal JS without cross scripting or the like.

The Forum is actually written in D. As far as I know the author 
is Vladimir Panteleev.
I could only find an old post on Hackernews about it, where 
someone noted its performance.

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592769 )