On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 08:41:31 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 03:31:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It's unlikely to happen in the near future, though, if at all.
But one can dream. :-)
I think the big plan behind Web Assembly is to allow foreign
languages an entry into the browser world.
IIRC it's planned that the entire DOM will be accessible via
Web Assembly at some point too.
But thats quite far in the future.
But with that I don't see any reason why D couldn't run
directly in the browser and do the same stuff JavaScript does.
Well except some technical details which are not clear to me
now. :-D
Rather than pursuing JS endeavors, I was thinking of creating a
light weight scripting language on top of D, something better
than JS and not tied to the Web. Something people could use for
day to day scripting tasks (like Python or Lua). Maybe we can
build on the DMDScript engine, I don't know.
