On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 22:56:07 UTC, hatf0 wrote:
Hi all,
I've just managed to get the full DMD front-end to work in
WebAssembly (with skoppe's druntime fork). This doesn't do
code-gen or anything (but it potentially could?), and has some
OS-specific functionality stubbed out. No clue about GC --
haven't run into that issue, haven't thought about it yet!
You can find my work here if you're interested:
https://github.com/hatf0/dmd-fe-wasm-wrapper
This repo also serves as a semi-decent guide on how to get
started building files that target WebAssembly (specifically
WASI), if you're into that.
neat! Given the low footprint of WASM apps maybe this could maybe
be used to have small isolated, cross-platform DMD tools that run
one-shot? Could for example run the WASM binaries from the IDE
and because it's WASM running in the own process, with memory
that we can free, it avoids low startup times, especially on
windows.
Do we have some WASM runner in D?
