On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 03:31:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:36:48AM +0000, Yuxuan Shui via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 00:55:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/13/2016 5:13 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > My *real* dream is for D (or some suitable subset thereof)
> > to replace Javascript in browsers. But that's a very
> > distant, if at all even possible, dream. :-D
>
> It's a great dream!
Don't we have a pretty efficient JIT javascript implementation
in D already?
https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs
I know that. What I meant was that instead of writing
javascript we'd write D instead, in our webpages. Or at least,
some subset of D that's safe for the web. I.e., instead of:
<html><head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="myscript.js"/>
...
you'd write
<html><head>
<script type="text/d" src="myscript.d"/>
...
It's unlikely to happen in the near future, though, if at all.
But one can dream. :-)
T
I love D but I don't see the point of putting it directly in a
browser. It's
main forces (compile-time stuff and speed) would have no impact
at all and
the static typing would just make it harder for no good reason.
The web is a
very dynamic place so I'd rather have a very dynamic language.
Maybe not
javascript but really no D. Let's keep D where it's strong and
accept that it
can't be strong at everything and that other languages are better
suited for
the task.
