76 lines
2.8 KiB
Markdown
76 lines
2.8 KiB
Markdown
|
+++
|
||
|
|
date = '2015-04-01'
|
||
|
|
title = 'D Language'
|
||
|
|
tags = ["dlang", "linux", "web", "contributions"]
|
||
|
|
+++
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The [D language](https://dlang.org) is a recent language very similar to C++ in term of features, but with a cleaned syntax and better compile-time features.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I like the D language because it makes possible to write nice and robust applications within a very short time.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<!--more-->
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Here are some small projects I have done using D:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Served
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
{{< cinema path="/images/posts/served-*.*" >}}
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Served is a __lightweight file-sharing web service__ (a bit like _Google Drive_) written using the web server library [vibe.d](https://vibed.org).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
It is designed to be __quickly deployed__ as a __web file server__ that can also be used to __upload files__ to a directory. Its default configuration serves the folder given by command line and uses UNIX users/passwords (via __PAM Authentification__) to upload/view files respecting file permissions.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
By default, the file named `index.md` gets rendered atop of the file list.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
### More
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
- Source code: https://github.com/CromFr/Served
|
||
|
|
- Design:
|
||
|
|
+ Bootstrap
|
||
|
|
+ JQuery
|
||
|
|
+ Markdown rendering with Showdown
|
||
|
|
+ Interfacing D lang. with C library (PAM)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## NWN2 Log web access
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
{{< cinema path="/images/posts/nwnlog-*.*" >}}
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The goal was to provide a common __web interface__ to __browse and search log__ entries written by the Neverwinter Nights 2 server _La Colère d'Aurile_.
|
||
|
|
These entries are written in different files/databases, use different syntaxes and timestamps relative to different time zones.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The log viewer has been written to be as easy as possible to extend and maintain:
|
||
|
|
If you want to add a log page, you just have to write a class. The menus, interface, search parameters, the instantiation are __auto-generated at compile time__.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
### More
|
||
|
|
- Source code: https://github.com/CromFr/NWNLogViewer
|
||
|
|
- Design
|
||
|
|
+ REST API generating Json data
|
||
|
|
+ Search & data-binding using AngularJS
|
||
|
|
+ Much code generation using D meta-programming features
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## NWN2 GUI viewer
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
{{< cinema path="/images/posts/nwnlog-*.*" >}}
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Neverwinter Nights 2 lacks of third applications. This one __renders NWN2 GUI__ without launching the whole game, and updates itself on file change.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
It allows developers to write the XML GUI code with their favourite editor, while seeing the result in real time in another window, with extra debugging information that NWN2 doesn't provide.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Right now it has some quirks on text alignment and font handling, but the result is still close to the in-game rendering.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
### More
|
||
|
|
- Source code: https://github.com/CromFr/NWNGuiViewer
|
||
|
|
- Design:
|
||
|
|
+ GTK 3 with GTKD wrapper for D lang.
|
||
|
|
+ Hand-made XML parser
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Phobos
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Phobos is the standard library of the D language.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I have fixed a couple of bugs in the library, and I am looking to fix more of them in the future :).
|