D Web Services Application Potential?

[Brandon Ragland via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 02:53:12 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On 2015-07-25 22:35, Brandon Ragland wrote:
>> On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 00:46:58 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> In relation to DDB: Have you seen: 
>> https://github.com/buggins/ddbc
>>
>> It's most similar to the JDBC driver in Java. Currently 
>> supports MySQL,
>> PostgreSQL and SQLite. That might be a good starting point to 
>> expand the
>> SQL driver support for a web framework.
>>
>> I dug around some of your repos, too early to comment but I'll 
>> sift
>> through more of it as time allows, see if I can't offer 
>> anything towards
>> your current goals in the near future.
>>
>> I fully agree that D would be a great fit for web development.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, the goal is to avoid libpq. A typical Vibe.d TCP 
> Connection is based on what you know as Green Threads, it's 
> called Tasks/Fibers in D. It means you have to avoid any 
> library that uses thread-blocking I/O because you're using 1 
> thread to handle all requests.

That would make sense then.

Was unaware vibe.d was using green threading. The JVM dropped 
green threads circa 1.2, a long time ago.

I suppose the complexity of asynchronous I/O was never 
implemented to avoid these blocking issues with fibers/tasks?