The issue with D...

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 8 February 2019 at 12:29:57 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Friday, 8 February 2019 at 12:09:20 UTC, Ecstatic Coder 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I took a look at the competition. I googled "rust web server" 
> and got this result: 
> https://gist.github.com/mjohnsullivan/e5182707caf0a9dbdf2d . To 
> be honest, the code doesn't look too nice, it's too low-level 
> and it's not something one would write in a hurry. On the 
> bottom though is an example using external packages and it 
> looks very nice. I think things like sockets, xml, json belong 
> to standard library, because it promotes interoperability 
> (imagine if we didn't have string in stdlib and everyone would 
> make their custom string classes, it'd be a mess). Dlangui - 
> no. At most it should be promoted as a most straighforward way 
> to do GUIs with D. But even then, I have doubts. I've never 
> used this library, but the screenshots give me a very 
> non-native GUI feeling. In theory it looks fine, but it just 
> looks off.

Microsoft is using Actix for their Rust Azure backend projects, a 
bit more powerful and easier to use than that gist.

https://actix.rs/