Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 08:49:42 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote: On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: hi, my javascript skill is bad. but i want to host some nodejs app i am aware that there is converter to js like dtojs. but it is out of date. i'd like to give d a try. is there any other converter available. a decent one. I haven't personally tried it, but there is an example of compiling D to Javascript here : https://github.com/Ace17/dscripten The example I used (thanks to Cosinuns): https://github.com/cosinus2/dlang-emscripten-demo I'd try DScripten first, though. Without, I need to compile parts of Phobos myself to JS. Plus the Emscripten linker seemingly can't link D symbols because of some bug. I have to manually call the LLVM linker, which sometimes seems to have different ideas about what the program is calling.
Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: hi, my javascript skill is bad. but i want to host some nodejs app i am aware that there is converter to js like dtojs. but it is out of date. i'd like to give d a try. is there any other converter available. a decent one. Let me recommend https://bridge.net/ Transpiles C# to JavaScript. I use it at work as my main tool. Feels very mature. IMO C# < D, but it still wipes the floor with using JavaScript directly. Minority of my JavaScript is also transpiled from D. If you do the same, you will need a lot more determination and know-how than normal, and you can't except to use all D features. Multithearding and GC among other features are out. You could use DScripten which will probably make D better in this regard, but still not like normal. Personally I haven't still tried DScripten because there is not much I could easily port to D. The reason for that is that D cannot call most js functions directly, because it cannot handle most JavaScript types. Except if you manage to translate Emscripten headers val.h and wire.h (which are heavily templated c++) into D. I have put some effort to that, but it's not going well. Because of the reasoms above, I don't currently recommend D as a JavaScript source for the average programmer. However, you will most likely want to make some utility programs to assist you -build scripts, mass file handling, translating configuration file formats etc. There D works very well. Also, as said, the server backend does not have to be JavaScript - only the frontend. For backend, you can use D web frameworks -vibe.d/hunt/diamond- instead.
Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 08:49:42 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote: On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: hi, my javascript skill is bad. but i want to host some nodejs app i am aware that there is converter to js like dtojs. but it is out of date. i'd like to give d a try. is there any other converter available. a decent one. I haven't personally tried it, but there is an example of compiling D to Javascript here : https://github.com/Ace17/dscripten ok will look at it. thanks.
Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: hi, my javascript skill is bad. but i want to host some nodejs app i am aware that there is converter to js like dtojs. but it is out of date. i'd like to give d a try. is there any other converter available. a decent one. I haven't personally tried it, but there is an example of compiling D to Javascript here : https://github.com/Ace17/dscripten
Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 05:07:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: i'd like to give d a try. Why do you need to convert it to javascript? D can serve up web stuff by itself too. did you mean vibe.d? but i want to use in a shared hosting environment where my options are : ruby, python, nodejs and as usual php vibe.d as standalone app will not work. i know kotlin with js support, but maybe there is another option .. thanks for your answer and insight.
Re: javascript or typescript
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 02:51:19 UTC, Fred wrote: i'd like to give d a try. Why do you need to convert it to javascript? D can serve up web stuff by itself too.
javascript or typescript
hi, my javascript skill is bad. but i want to host some nodejs app i am aware that there is converter to js like dtojs. but it is out of date. i'd like to give d a try. is there any other converter available. a decent one.
