Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Eric Poggel]

On 6/4/2010 11:13 AM, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> On 6/4/10, Eric Poggel<dnewsgroup at yage3d.net>  wrote:
>> I prefer D to PHP, but writing a web app in D would take me much longer
>> due to the lack of web-oriented libraries.
>
> What kind of stuff would you need? I admit I did spend several
> weekends doing prep work on libraries before proposing it to the
> client - had to write mysql, cgi, http get and post, my xml code, and
> some helper functions to extend std.json before I was confident enough
> in having the libraries to propose it, but now I have that, and can
> share if it sounds useful.
>
> The only place where library lacking has hit me so far is interfacing
> with Facebook. For that part of the app, I still use PHP. I'd like to
> port it eventually, implementing oauth and such in a nice, generic
> way, but I haven't gotten around to it yet... still, the vast majority
> of what I need I can do now in plain D.

It would be nice to have a web library for D, but my web development has 
been almost exclusively for shared hosting environments.  Also, most web 
developers know PHP while zero know D.  Clients would see that as lock-in.