How useful is D

Derek Parnell derek at nomail.afraid.org
Tue Jul 4 16:58:12 PDT 2006


On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:41:53 +0200, Lars E. wrote:

> The language itself seems to be very interesting. 

Yes it does.

>Unfortunately, there 
> does not seem to be a single complete and stable GUI toolkit, which is a 
> real show stopper 

Huh? My company develops many applications for the finance industry and
most are not coded using an IDE. We are not hindered by the absence of an
IDE.

>- since I can only imagine using D for small GUI 
> client apps on the desktop right now

Then maybe your imagination is a little blinkered at the moment? I can
imagine many other types of applications that D would be suitable for.

> On the server side, it is impratical to not use Apache or IIS to host 
> your applications, since most firewalls block anything but port 80, and 
> most servers also host web content.

Huh? What has that got to do with writing D server-side applications? You
do realize that not every server application has to communicate via HTTP.
And many, if not most, servers are not Web servers.

> So if you cannot use it on the server side nor on the client side, what 
> is it useful for?

Batch Text processing. Database utilities. Encryption/Decryption servers.
Real-time monitoring. Machine Control. All console applications. Database
servers. ...

> Does anyone here use it commercially or do you only toy around with it 
> in your spare time?

I'm not going to do anything commercial with it until it has stabilized
into a v1.0 release. I will then be doing prototypes for at least two
commercial applications: a data encryption application for generating,
printing and managing keys for ATMs and PINs, and one for managing the
securatisation of financial instruments (loans, leases, lines-of-credit,
... )

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocrity!"
5/07/2006 9:41:56 AM



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