Where will D sit in the web service space?

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 17:54:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 12:32:32 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Web servers: Why not?
>
> Mostly because there is no real visible direction towards 
> making D a competitor that directly addresses specific needs of 
> web programming.
>
So what?

Personally, I've dealt with perl, ruby, python, java, and php in 
the web space and as far as I'm concerned they're all 
unmaintainable trash.  (perl, ironically, gave me the best 
experience of the five!)

If I ever decide I'm masochistic enough to attempt something in 
that vein again, D is at least as strong a contender for me 
because it offers fast iteration, solid performance, and a type 
system that doesn't make me want to punch small animals.

Go and Rust, for all their "theoretical superiority" in one place 
or another, _don't feel good_.  Go is to C what Plan 9 is to 
Unix, which is to say it's a thoroughly unimaginitive, 
ideologically hampered, overly-conservative iteration from Rob 
Pike.  Rust might be intriguing if it ever catches up to D in 
being pleasant to use.

-Wyatt