Ask HN: Do you use D language in web programming?
I'm examining a language D language. and I liked the features it offers. I want to get the comments of people who actively use it. I would be glad if you write your reasons for using it. Thank you.
there is vibe.d (https://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d) has a web framework that creates and handles http for you. However if you want to have better control and do things traditionally there is cgi_d (https://code.dlang.org/packages/cgi_d). if you want fast cgi I think there is a library for that too.
I personally prefer cgi as that it is just reading and writing to std-in and std-out and letting Apache or Nginx handle the http layer. I'm not really a fan of vibe.d because it's more than a library for web development, it's a framework. So if you Go with vibe you have to commit to the vibe way of doing web development.
I also use painlessjson so that that I can create Restful services that return json objects. As well I use mustache.d so that I can create static HTML templates to return dynamic serverside generated html.
Like most applications on the web though my current project not purly in D (while it could be), I am also using Jquery to call my Restful API to retrieve data. So it's a mixture of architecture; D on the backend, and html, javascript, css, etc... on the front end.