On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 19:49:15 UTC, Andrew wrote:
Hi All,
I've been writing a MUD for a little while, initially using
Haskell but now using C. I develop on MacOS X but deploy to a
Raspberry Pi. I loved using Haskell especially using the Parsec
parser but unfortunately I couldn't build on the Pi because the
resource requirements were just too heavy.
Now I develop in C and the same Makefile builds on Mac and
Debian equally well and of course I can use the lovely Xcode
environment. However, as I start to add more advanced features
it's getting rather tedious. The MUD has an embedded web server
which supports web sockets for real time play and the back end
is a Mongo DB. The C code to access DB is very repetitive and
is slowing me down because of the lack of higher level
constructs. Similarly the parser is very basic and ropey which
needs attention.
Hence my interest in D. I've spent a few hours trying to get
GDC working on my Pi which is proving to be a bitch but I'm
hoping that it will be worth it.
Before I get too far down this path, would you recommend D for
this task and will porting from Mac to Pi be seamless ?
As Adam already said D on Pi is adventurous.
For MongoDB and web stuff, you should look into Vibe.d [0]. For
parsing I would suggest Pegged [1].
Welcome to D and Happy Hacking! :)
[0] http://vibed.org/
[1] https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged
