On 2017-10-22 04:48, Joakim wrote:
I just read the following two week-old comment on the ldc issue tracker,
when someone tried to run D on Alpine linux:
"For now everything works(?) but I think the process could be improved..
Would be really cool to have LDC easily building alpine containers +
static D binaries for microservice and tooling development. I'm pretty
tired of reading Go code :)"
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2341#issuecomment-334626550
It strikes me that microservices are a great way for new programming
languages like D to get tried and gain some uptake, but that D might not
be that easy to deploy to that scenario yet.
So this is a question for those deploying microservices, as I'm not in
that field, what can the D devs do to make it as easy as possible to get
D microservices up and running, make some Docker and Alpine containers
with ldc/dub/vibe.d preinstalled publicly available? What else, what
kinds of libraries do you normally use?
This is a niche that D and all newer languages should target. How do we
do it?
* Support full static linking using DMD, which requires the TLS
implementation to be modified
* Support musl as the standard C library, I've discussed that before [1]
* Database drivers for the common databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
compatible with vibe.d
* Database driver abstraction on top of the above drivers, perhaps some
lightweight ORM library
* RabbitMQ library compatible with vibe.d
* Serialization to/from JSON and YAML
* Official Docker images with DMD and LDC wouldn't hurt
* Pre-compiled DMD that works on Alpine. Fully statically linked DMD
would help here
That's what I can think of for now.
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
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/Jacob Carlborg
