D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Mar 1 23:39:42 PST 2012


On 2012-02-29 18:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:jilnie$1fsr$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 29-02-2012 18:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 2/26/12 9:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>> https://github.com/downloads/adamdruppe/dtojs/dtojs.zip
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> That's interesting. So the idea is to make an entire subset of D
>>> convertible to Javascript?
>>>
>>> What use cases do you have in mind?
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>>
>>
>> Avoiding writing JS directly in web apps comes to mind.
>>
>
> Yea, creating JS without having to actually *write* JS is a huge use-case in
> and of itself.
>
> (I still can't believe the web has standardized on such an absolute shit
> langauge. Hell, two of them if you count PHP on the server.)

Five if you count HTML, CSS and SQL as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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