Actually I want to serve some JSON packed weather data (heck I
also wrote my Global Climate Model partially in D and in C) - so I guess, I can use vibe.d to build a cgi.
Cool. Do you incorporate the influence of solar activity via galactic rays / cloud formation and via volcanic activity? (This is not my field, but I am looking for a model that does).
However I also want to recieve some userinput, and parse it - and sometimes, php is simpler, because for a very small parsing task you dont want to worry abotu types and all. Does vibe.d support any HTML Preprocessor in the first place? If not PHP then Neco? Falcon? So that I do not always have to access my vibe.d based app, but I can simply change the page itself a bit?
It won't be quicker to write the parsing code in D if you are new to the language, but it is still pretty quick when you know how. There are regexes etc too.
What Ketmar says. For a robust application it might be better to put it behind a proxy like nginx anyway. In which case you can use your vibed application to serve up parts of your site and php for others. Eg user submits a form and the result is posted to a url that nginx routes to your vibed app.
You could dispense entirely with the web server and do the whole thing in vibed, but you don't need to. Although its a framework, you don't have to do much to turn it into a web server if you look at the documentation on the vibed page. The forum there is also quite helpful.
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