On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 20:41:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
These are well established frameworks used by very many developers. I would bet that each of them have more users than D has. If you don't like frameworks you free to call the tools something else.
There is no solid gravity in web development, so if dlang gets an overhaul every 4-8 years it probably is better to avoid them. As IE9/IE10 are phased out a new situation is being established on the browser side, e.g. you are getting things like Polymer (forward-looking "frameworks" driven by browser vendors).
I suggested well established tools for web development. I can't say that is true for Ddoc. I also never heard of anyone using XSLT for web development.
XSLT is fine for generating static sites, but you can use anything that is decent at transforming a semantic data structure. By using XML+XSLT you market D as having a standard supporting infrastructure. That's the key issue. If you want people to move to D, you need to show that there is standard generic infrastructure that makes the transition easier.
If server development in D means using hodge-podge ad hoc tech... then that is a bad sign.
But if dlang.org goes for hodge-podge, then it might as well silently use Ruby/Python/Go/ whatever... since D are then not using dlang.org to position itself as a standard supporting server platform. *shrugs*
