On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Lately Andrei has worked a lot with improving the dlang.org
site in various ways. To me it getting more clear and clear
that Ddoc is not the right tool for building a web site.
Especially the latest "improvement" [1] shows that it's not a
good idea to reinvent the wheel, especially when it's not an
improvement, at all.
Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the
server side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on
Rails but I know that most of you here would hate that so a
better suggestion would probably be vibe.d. For the client side
I'm thinking Bootstrap and jQuery.
The biggest reason why I would prefer Rails is because I know
everything that is needed is already implemented and easily
available. I can not say the same thing about vibe.d. But it
might be enough for dlang.org, I don't know.
What do you think?
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
I would agree on this in general. Not sure about Rails (because
it is totally an overkill and may be a pain to maintain) but
everyone has their own preferences for the backend and templating
engine.... in this case even a proper static generator (Jekyll if
you're talking Ruby) with a proper responsive front end (JQuery
+ Bootstrap / Foundation / Semantic UI / whichever) would do. If
it's markdown-based, it would also significantly lower the
barrier for people other than a few devs who would like to
contribute to the docs and website but would hate to do it in
ddoc.
