On 2015-07-25 22:35, Brandon Ragland wrote:
On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 00:46:58 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
On 2015-07-25 18:47, Brandon Ragland wrote:
Hi All,
Not entirely certain if there is a decent D web applications server
implementation as of yet, but if there is a project going on, I'd love
to have a gander.
On the off-chance there isn't one, who would be interested in going at
it, call it, a 'group' project.
I've been yearning for a D web app server for a while, as most of my day
to day work is done on Java EE containers (think Glassfish, Weblogic,
etc. Java Beans, lalala) and the insane system usage has bothered me
from day one.
There's Wt for C++, although I don't see much coming from that, though
the concept is grand. Rust has a few up and coming web server frameworks
as well.
D could really excel here.
-Thoughts? Am I crazy (probably)?
Not crazy. I've been working towards exactly that as hard I could (see
on https://github.com/etcimon/), seeing how D would be the best
language to write any web backend with. I've since worked on writing
all the architecture in D: a new TLS library Botan, along with
libhttp2 for HTTP/2 support and an async event loop
(TCP/UDP/FileSystem/FileWatcher/DNS/Timers) library.
I've written all the "glue" code to have it in the vibe.d framework
and tested it as thoroughly as I could. I now consider it an
achievement and use it in my web applications.
I'm currently concentrating on improving an async postgresql driver
called DDB and adding transactions, Json, TLS, Listen/Notify, etc.
I think my next priority would be to rewrite the back-end of
http://www.cosmocms.org with D and the vibe.web.web Web Interface, and
Redis+Postgresql (sessions in redis). It's about 4k-5k LOC
I think a good and necessary library would be for cross-platform,
async DNS. I've been looking at this one in particular:
https://github.com/miekg/dns
In relation to DDB: Have you seen: https://github.com/buggins/ddbc
It's most similar to the JDBC driver in Java. Currently supports MySQL,
PostgreSQL and SQLite. That might be a good starting point to expand the
SQL driver support for a web framework.
I dug around some of your repos, too early to comment but I'll sift
through more of it as time allows, see if I can't offer anything towards
your current goals in the near future.
I fully agree that D would be a great fit for web development.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, the goal is to avoid libpq. A typical Vibe.d TCP Connection is
based on what you know as Green Threads, it's called Tasks/Fibers in D.
It means you have to avoid any library that uses thread-blocking I/O
because you're using 1 thread to handle all requests.
