On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Sönke Ludwig < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Am 26.07.2016 um 05:22 schrieb Puming: > >> On Monday, 25 July 2016 at 09:29:38 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: >> >>> The Diet template language is aimed at providing a way to define >>> procedurally generated HTML/XML pages (or other output formats), with >>> minimal visual noise. Syntax and feature set are heavily inspired by >>> Jade <http://jade-lang.org/>, but instead of JavaScript, all >>> expressions and statements are D statements, and everything that can >>> be done at compile-time is done at compile-time. >>> >>> [...] >>> >> >> A feature I want the most for Diet is the ability to parse Diet >> templates at RUNTIME instead of compile time with a switch, similar to >> Regex/CtRegex. >> >> In this way one can do quick turnarounds in dev mode, tweaking little >> corners of the pages, and then when a page is finished, it can be >> switched to compile mode for faster render time. >> >> Do you think this is feasible? >> > > A real runtime solution would require a D runtime interpreter or JIT > compiler. There would be an alternative solution based on compiling each > template to a shared library and then dynamically recompiling/reloading > those as required, but that currently doesn't work due to the alias > parameter based interface of render!(...). > > However, what should work well is a combination of > https://github.com/dlang/dub/pull/446 and > https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/1385 - I'll merge the > latter one into vibe.d master today. It will require to store session > information and similar things in an external store, and on Linux the Gold > linker should be used for speed, but then it should be almost as good as a > runtime solution. > !! nice, this is going to make my work life so much easier. Thanks Sönke!
