critique of vibe.d

[Poyeyo via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:05:54 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> * An ORM, which absolutely must have a way to build queries a 
> piece at a time without writing any SQL, like Django.
> * A framework for generating all of the SQL required for 
> database migrations like South or the built in migrations in 
> Django 1.7, so you can quickly change any model.

I am a Laravel developer, that's PHP inspired in Rails and 
Django. It has migrations, a query builder, ORM, form generators, 
etc.

However, well before we get to 'I want an ORM' stage, there are 
many things to be done first, as a DB foundation layer:

- Unified database API. For PHP is the PDO objects, for java is 
JDBC, it would be great to have a D DB standard set of objects, 
it should have database, table, rowset, row, field objects. They 
should not be part of a particular DB driver implementation. 
Rationale: I can change one single line in a laravel 
configuration file, rerun the migrations and seeds and have my 
system working in a different DB platform than before. It just 
works.

- A way to use all available SQL data types. I deal with money 
data, stored as DECIMAL (30,4). The Mysql driver throws an 
exception when I try to execute a query that reads DECIMAL data. 
This makes the whole D platform a non-starter for the company I 
work for.