I have updated the site and the repository with all of the D
changelogs split into their own pages. I had to reformat a few
things, primarily example code, so it would fit nicely in smaller
column sizes. I marked sections with headings so it fits into a
table of contents. One major thing that's missing is syntax
highlighting, as I'm not sure what to use for that.
http://w0rp.com:8010/changelog
Here is what I've noticed so far that's good about the diet
templates.
1. The template syntax, taken from Jade, is easy to understand
and clean.
2. I can do tricks like the table of contents easily.
However, with the good comes the bad.
1. If you are recompiling one template, you are recompiling *all*
of them. I'm getting closer to 100 templates, and it takes
seconds to compile.
2. Compiling many templates allocates like crazy during compile
time and eats memory like a hog. It takes *5GB* of RAM to compile
all of these templates.
It seems like the vibe.d diet templates take heap allocation
during compilation time way, way too far, to the point of them
being impractical to use for large websites. Somewhere around 100
templates is something I would expect for a reasonably sized
website.
So I have a plea or two for vibe.d
In addition to recompiling diet templates automatically during
development, which has been mentioned before, I believe there
should be an option to defer compilation of a template the first
time, during development, until you view a page using it for the
first time. This woud solve the slower compilation issue, because
then you'd only pay for what you used.
Second, something must be done about memory allocation during
compilation of diet templates. There's too much going on there.
That's it for now.
