On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 00:37:50 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 10:34:41 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 10:14:25 UTC, qznc wrote:
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No, JS is here to stay, unfortunately.
Good news, take a look at asmjs.org
In the future you'll be able to compile your D code into
javascript assembly, and run it in the browser. I predict LLVM
will have a javascript assembly backend, so LDC would get this
for free. Pretty cool stuff going on in the web world right
now.
Emscripten has been able to compile C++ to asm.js for a while -
uses modified llvm back end and ported C runtime. I guess web
assembly will take off, but somebody would still need to port the
runtime for D and integrate with new llvm wasm back end when it
is stable. See binaryem in meantime. I am not sure anyone is
working on this for D currently, but we might put this up
somewhere as a project in case volunteer comes along.
Then when that's done still need to write a library to do web
things like provide access to DOM from D.
Emscripten already looks quite nice, and I was so wanting to be
able to use it for serious work - it just doesn't seem to be
there just yet.
But I agree with your basic point, and it would be great not to
have to write js.
