On 11/25/19 7:52 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
So it became clear to me I need to have druntime available. It will
allow people to use the (almost) complete set of D features and it opens
up some metaprogramming avenues that are closed off right now. With that
I will be able to create some nice DSL, in line with JSX/SwiftUI or
<insert-your-favorite-declarative-framework>.
There are plenty of opportunities here. It is not unfeasible to connect
spasm to Qt, or dlangui, and create a cross-platform UI library,
something like flutter.
On the other hand, I am very excited about WebAssembly in general. It is
certainly at the beginning of the hype curve and I suspect some very
exciting things will appear in the future. Some of them are already here
right now. For instance, you can target ARM by compiling D code to wasm
and then use wasmer to compile it to ARM. With D connecting itself to
the wasm world it exposes itself to a lot of cool things, which we
mostly get for free.
As an example, it is just a matter of time before a PaaS provider fully
embraces wasm. Instead of having docker containers you just compile to
wasm, which will be pretty small and can boot in (sub) milli-seconds
(plus they don't necessarily need a linux host kernel running and can
run it closer to the hypervisor.)
As someone who does web application development, all of this sounds
awesome. I would LOVE to have a real programming language to do the
client-side stuff.
-Steve
