D for microservices

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2017-10-26 00:53, Adam Wilson wrote:

> This of course makes the assumption that we clean-room our own protocol 
> implementations which I am entirely against. Better to use what already 
> exists.

I'm entirely against anything that is not compatible with vibe.d ;)

> I actually don't think the slow updates are huge problem as these DB 
> interface libraries are pretty slow to change themselves. For example, 
> ADO.NET didn't change significantly from it's 1.0 release until the 
> arrival of Async/Await in .NET 4.5, which was 10 years later. The 
> biggest addition prior to Async was TVP support and that was tiny 
> comparatively and came in 2005.
> 
> The libpq5 interface has barely changed in years. I can't speak to MySQL 
> but IIRC it hasn't changed much either, at least not in a way that would 
> effect the abstraction layer.

I'm more concerned that I don't think we'll manage to implement a 
complete API and 100% bug free at the first try.

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/Jacob Carlborg