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[Ecstatic Coder]

> If the GC issue can not be tackled and even with the recent 
> communication blogs, it still keeps showing up. Is it maybe not 
> better to focus the marketing features that other developers ( 
> none C++ ) may see as advantages and slow draw then in? High 
> performance web development package for instance. Vibe.d does 
> not count because has not been seen giving any descent public 
> performance in years ( like techempower or other sites ).

At the moment, for very demanding high-performance web 
applications, the main choices are :
- Dart
- Go
- C/C++
- Java/Kotlin

This is somewhat confirmed by the following benchmark (despite 
its well known flaws) :

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=ph&test=query

I think that D, with its fiber system and extreme execution 
speeds, should already have everything needed to compete on the 
same grounds as Dart and Go.

But only if :
- the fibers automatically uses all cores if allowed to do so;
- the GC problems is designed so that the server never hangs for 
more than a few milliseconds IN THE WORST CASE (progressive GC)
- dedicated HIGH PERFORMANCE web server (cfr Go/Dart) and 
database access (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aerospike) libraries are 
available, preferably as a standard library (like in Dart and Go).

And for the third point, I really mean high performance, 
something that make D's implementation of the (silly) benchmarks 
immediately go to the top of the chart.

If all that is already available, perfect :)

Then we just need to add the D version of the benchmarks, and the 
marketing is done.

And moreover I'd be delighted to start using D instead of Go for 
my next web server developments.