On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 20:39:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
If there's sheer work needed for completing vibe.d, I think it
would be great if the domain-savvy part of the community would
rally around it. Serving dlang.org and dconf.org off of vibe.d
would be awesome dogfooding.
Google App Engine is opening up for managed servers using new
tech. I know Dart is coming to the managed servers soon. Of
course, this is still in limited preview and not for production,
but having D on App Engine would be interesting for many reasons.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
Google Compute Engine is also an option. Building libraries to
access the regular cloud services such as Google Cloud Storage
and Cloud SQL (replicated MySQL) is not too hard.
https://developers.google.com/compute/
https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/
https://developers.google.com/storage/
It would also be an opportunity to test the abstraction levels of
the current standard library…