D for microservices

[Andrew Benton]

On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 17:58:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 14:34:44 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> [snip]
>
> The Alpine build is up, let me know if you have any problems.  
> Note the changelog entry that says you'll need to install llvm 
> and maybe other packages from the Alpine package manager first.

I took a shot at dockerizing dub-registry with the alpine build 
using multistage builds.  I got ldc installed and dub built.  
Unfortunately when I tried to build dub-registry, I found that 
vibe-d's vibe-core, libevent, and libasync configurations can't 
run under musl due to some of the networking dependencies in 
druntime core, e.g. `core.sys.linux.netinet.in_`.

I realize that's something that you can't really prevent as the 
packager, but it's still relevant to the status of D for 
microservices.

Bad news: not being able to build vibe.d is a pretty big hit for 
this objective.
Good news: there are other libraries we can try and we know how 
to fix this problem.