Alexa Skill written in D

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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:
>
>> Alexa, ask Telly to go to standby
>> Alexa, ask Telly what is currently running
>
> 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

Thank you for doing this - really happy about it.  A perfect open 
source moment - I was wondering about how to go about getting 
Alexa working.  But I had shared the AWS Lambda stuff which 
proved useful for you, and now you solved the problem for me and 
helped others on top.


Laeeth.