LDC 1.21.0

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 06:58:52 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 06:13:09 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Great work! What is the status of WebAssembly support beyond 
>> betterC?
>
> Almost there.
>
> I originally planned to complete it last February. It turned 
> out to be a bit more work because I didn't consider I would 
> need to port parts of phobos as well. I then set a new deadline 
> in March.
>
> Covid-19 happened and my wife and I have been homeschooling our 
> kids in-between work. I haven't been able to find a lot of time 
> to work on this.
>
> The druntime and phobos test-runners both compile, and I am 
> using whatever spare time I have to fix or disable any tests 
> that fail.
>
> Once that is done, I will open up PR's to both upstream repos. 
> I do expect some discussions on that front so it probably won't 
> be a one-day deal.
>
> After that there will be a little celebration since I have 
> already have a PR to update LDC's CI to create prebuild 
> releases.

 From my side, no need for explanations, it is already a much 
better experience with D and betterC than having to deal with 
emscripten.

Many thanks for the work, all the best and stay safe in these 
days.