Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Robert Clipsham]

On 06/06/10 18:26, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Heh heh. "good reliable code in PHP" *is* a contradiction of terms, after
> all ;)

<?php echo 'Not true! D:', "\n"; ?>
This said, I bet we could find a case where that doesn't work properly :3

> As much as I prefer to write Haxe (and then compile it down to PHP), one of
> the [many] things that bugs me about Haxe is that it doesn't appear to do
> any of those checks automatically. Big missed opportunity there.

I've never really looked into haxe, but I agree, if it doesn't do those 
checks it's fairly useless - have you made a bug report? Your dreams 
could come true... Or you could forget and be forced to use D.. Dang!

> I've been positively salivating at the idea of combining D, FastCGI and a
> D-ified rails-like framework. Haven't gotten around to it though.
> Fortunately, I did recently find out that the hosts I'm currently using
> allow custom-made CGI. Unfortunately, I can't use FastCGI on them, although
> I've been getting so fed up with PHP lately (both the PHP language and the
> PHP platform - Haxe only sheilds you from [parts of] the language, not the
> platform), that I think I can live perfectly happily without FastCGI.

I've been toying with the same idea, the framework I've been looking at 
porting uses a lot of runtime reflection though which I'm not sure is 
easy enough to do in D1. I've strayed away from D2 now after a couple of 
unsuccessful attempts at using it.

Robert