On 11/19/12 3:38 PM, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
I'd like to see an HTTP module in Phobos, but I wanted to gauge interest first and see if this has been discussed before.
I can say the following. We sorely need a server expert on board with the time and inclination to write a good server-side networking framework. We have a couple, but for various reasons I have been unable to convince them (through newsgroup and private exchanges) to invest time in such an endeavor. That's mostly because lack of time - speaking for myself, I wish I found the time to learn about all that, which as far as I understand gravitates around notions such as asynchronous I/O, libevent/libevt, select(), and the such. I've never used them so I'd need to start from scratch.
We really need an expert. Look at the Go programming language - it's not remarkable, but it benefits of full-time dedication of experts in server-side programming, so it has acquired excellent library support for networking servers. And they milk that for all it's worth: any discussion, article, or blog post about Go gravitates toward the five-lines HTTP server with the same implacable reach as conversations with ideologists, which inevitably converge towards their ideological stronghold.
Andrei
