How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
>> El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit:
>>
>>>> but hey, now we have D.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I like D far better than Java.
>>
>> +1000
>
> So do I. But for Java there is Hibernate, Hadoop, Cassandra, 
> DI, JSF, JMS, JTA, SOAP, REST, vert.x, Quartz, web servers, 
> application servers, various NoSQL-DBs and I don't know what. 
> As you most often need some of those things in enterprise 
> computing I'm pretty much bound to Java.
>
> There are a number of job adds for Go developers (see 
> http://golangprojects.com). Go seems to be a good complement 
> for Ruby, Python, PHP which are slow and have bad concurrency. 
> Then Go seems to appeal to companies whose product is some 
> server-side application (like some cloud offering or PaaS).
>
> I believe D could also play well in this server-side arena like 
> Go. Maybe with the FiberScheduler developed by Sean Kelly D can 
> also offer "dead-simple" concurrency and be appealing to 
> developing cloud solutions or other style of server-side 
> applications for which easy concurrency is a big plus.
>
> -- Bienlein

I use vibe.d for a small server side application. It's quite 
fast, although we haven't tested it on a larger scale yet. On the 
downside, vibe.d's API is not quite intuitive, so it takes a 
while to get used to it. But that might be down to the fact that 
it's not easy to write an intuitive API for the web with all the 
different bits and pieces that have different logics to them.