Alexa Skill written in D

[extrawurst via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 16:22:09 UTC, docandrew wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 January 2017 at 13:17:35 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> the last 2 weeks I jumped on a new toy project: An Alexa Skill 
>> written in D.
>>
>> It is a skill that allows me to voice control my TV receiver 
>> with commands like:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> The project and all the source code sits on github:
>> https://github.com/Extrawurst/alexa-openwebif
>>
>> I created two new dub libraries that this app uses:
>> https://github.com/Extrawurst/openwebif-client-d
>> https://github.com/Extrawurst/alexa-skill-kit-d
>>
>> *openwebif-client-d* is the REST api that my receiver speaks.
>> *alexa-skill-kit-d* is the base class and the types that 
>> amazon throws at when the user activated your skill.
>>
>> you can find the blog post here:
>> http://blog.extrawurst.org/programming/dlang/alexa/2017/01/06/alexa-in-d.html
>>
>> Feel free to share, to spread the word about using D for this 
>> fancy new tech.
>>
>> ~Stephan
>
> Good work! I've been using my Echo for a little while now and 
> it's great to know I can start using D with it! Great write-up 
> on the project, thanks for sharing this.
>
> -Doc

Nice, good to know there are just two problems with that:
1) I am on Mac, so no luck here
2) I needed to be as close to the Amazon Linux as possible and 
that unfortunately is rhel based :( did not test Ubuntu though

~stephan