Web Programming in D

[Andrew]

On Thursday, 22 June 2023 at 06:15:47 UTC, Web Dev wrote:
> The D language is among the languages ​​that I have been 
> interested in for a long time, and it is pleasing to see that 
> there is an active community by following the forum for a while.
>
> As part of my job, I usually develop web software. There have 
> been projects where I have used Python, PHP and recently Go for 
> the backend.
>
> However, I recently thought of using the D language in web 
> projects as well. When I look at the frameworks developed on 
> the web, I see Hunt and Vibe.D options.
>
> I think Hunt is no longer in development but Vibe.D continues 
> to be developed.
>
> Has anyone done a web project with Vibe.D before? What are the 
> positive and negative aspects? Does it make sense to use the D 
> language on the web for now?

As someone whose day job involves web development in Python and 
Java, at the current state-of-the-art for D web development 
libraries, I would probably not choose D for a web project; I say 
this even as someone who's developed their own HTTP server 
([handy-httpd](https://github.com/andrewlalis/handy-httpd)).

For hobbyist stuff, yeah, go right ahead. But if you're planning 
on investing time and money into a product, it just makes sense 
to go with something that has a lot more support, better 
documentation, better tooling, and so on. And at the moment, that 
would be Python + FastAPI, PHP + Laravel, Java + Spring, etc; I 
don't see any D library that is yet comparable to any of the 
popular language/framework combos.

The issue is that in order to make D competitive in web 
programming, with the most bleeding-edge frameworks, we need a 
coordinated effort by tens or hundreds of contributors, and I 
just don't think that'll happen unless something spectacular 
happens in the coming months as the D language foundation 
reorganizes stuff.