[OT] D hidden features topic for StackOverflow

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bent Rasmussen" <IncredibleShrinkingSphere at Gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> It may be that it "involves" using Javascript in the same sense that using 
> D involves using assembler code, but Javascript implementations are 
> becomming increasingly fast, as latest witnessed by the Squirrelfish 
> Extreme Javascript VM (and V8 and TraceMonkey). There are also languages 
> like haXe, Java and C# that can be compiled to Javascript. It's becomming 
> increasinly nice to work with, with type inference, intellisense etc.
>
> That said, the platform is aging and ad-hoc. But there is some new life 
> being breathed into it.
>

That's really good to know, about compiling decent languages to JS. Thanks 
:)

FWIW, I was thrilled to see that newer versions of JS actually allow 
variables to be declared as actual specific types instead of just variant. 
So, in other words, it's finally catching up to Visual Basic ;) [/snide jab]

> That said, the platform is aging and ad-hoc.

Yea, that's a pretty good summary of my opinion on it.