Alexa Skill written in D

[extrawurst via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 10 January 2017 at 11:46:22 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 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:
>>
>>> 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.

Hi Laeeth, thanks again for your post about aws lambda + D - 
wouldn't have thought about this whole thing otherwise.

I wanted to ask you if you thought about using another platform 
but nodejs wrap the D exe in lambda. They support java and C# 
aswell. I was wondering if it is a performance difference to use 
them instead ?!
Looking forward to your input.

Cheers,
Stephan