Web development status

[kenny]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
> 
> Antti Holvikari wrote:
>> On 1/22/07, Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Antti Holvikari wrote:
>>> > Hi!
>>> >
>>> > I've searched and searched for some stuff about web development in D
>>> > but have found almost nothing. What is the status of the CGI module[1]
>>> > that Marten wrote (the link on that page is broken)? Or should I go
>>> > with Mango?
>>> >
>>> > Has anyone done any webapps with D?
>>> >
>>> > [1] http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?CGI
>>> >
>>>
>>> I wish we'd have a framework similar to Django, however, come to think
>>> of it .. I'd rather use Django than wait for a D clone .. which I don't
>>> think can be more powerful since D doesn't have any dynamic reflection
>>> capabilities.
>>
>> Hmm, hope I'm not missing something here but why would you need
>> reflection for that?
>>
> 
> Well, We don't need it to make a server in D, but if we want to make a 
> powerful framework for web applications, I'd say reflection is a must.
> 
> Maybe I don't understand Reflection very well, but there are things in 
> Django that'd only be possible in a dynamic language, or a language with 
>   good Reflection capabilities.

I've been doing web development in D for a long time. I use my own 
framework to do it. If there are enough people interested, I could 
possibly open source it in a few weeks (it needs a lot of cleaning)

it connects over fastcgi interface (I run lighttpd, but apache can be 
used), or can use  shttpd's embedded for connections directly. It's 
quite extensive -- it's parsed templates into bytecode, and quite a bit 
of other stuff... It's definitely pretty solid, and it's the backend of 
a social network that's being built.

if you guys are really interested, I'll write some samples up to get 
feedback before opening it.