Tsoding - How Not to Market Your Language Features

[Dukc]

On Friday, 28 March 2025 at 07:40:08 UTC, Sergey wrote:
>
> (good for D he doesn't do web development and doesn't know that 
> D has nothing to do in modern cloud web area).
>

Can you elaborate that "has nothing to do"? Do you mean that 
anything D offers over the common languages is of no use in web 
development?

My recent experience disagrees. I wanted to preprocess HTML pages 
in my Vibe.d server, but I couldn't make them Diet templates 
since they are processed through [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) 
which outputs HTML.

So, I entered my D code inside a `<script type="dlang">` block, 
and had my application to parse the HTML file at compile time, 
putting the D script in a mixin. In most other compiled 
languages, I would have had to write a new program to extract the 
preprocessor script out of the HTML, adding another phase to the 
build process - quite a bit more complicated! The CTFE features 
of D really simplified my life here.