On Thursday, 2 February 2017 at 05:33:57 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
A good language, powerful performance is on the one hand,
but, first of all is practical.
No language does not involve the database, because the database
is the most widely used. Why C #, Java are better than D in
practical? Because the basic work is good and practical!
There was a language is born for the database, it's called
PowerBuilder, because it did not keep up with the development
of the Internet era (B / S architecture), and their own
development is not good, and later replaced by Java. But now, D
even C / S architecture is not doing a good job.
When I'm ready to use D, but found the poor practicality! C
#, Java can do, but D can not do!
For example, I want to do the execution of stored procedure
for MSSql、MySQL database. I found in Mysql-d, Mysql-Native,
arsd, DDBC, etc. there is no result. Therefore, the project had
to give up, turn to C #.
the practicality of database in D , is the basis for the
development of D, will determine the future of D!
Frank
I use mysql with for vibe.d project and either mysql-lited or
mysql-native works well for me. There seem to be no mssql package
though (because few people will pay to use unless it fetch them
enough money for what it is worth).
I agree there are still more packages needed but they increase
week by week as I've been observing.
I personally REALLY need an Amazon S3 api but vibe-s3 maintainer
hasn't gotten enough time to work on it and there almost no
contributions (even for S3 which is popular/the defacto in the
cloud storage world). I know it sucks when you can't do it for
yourself.
But we can only hope more people get motivated to contribute
packages to dub. I'm quite impressed by the few companies in
Github contributing/submitting their production packages to dub
registry. It is only getting better day in day out.
I don't know if there is anything the D Foundation can and will
do about that :)
