JavaScript is the "VM" to target for D

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 06:17:25PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "it forces you to use their tool chain the whole way"

Check out the README:

http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/native_client/README.html

Notice how the instructions don't say to use gcc and gdb, but instead
nacl-gcc and nacl-gdb. The downloads say "source and toolchain".

Wikipedia says that it is simply because the code have 32 byte alignment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client

(second paragraph) but nevertheless, an out of the box compiler isn't going
to work for it.


Then, once the code is written, you can't execute it without the Google
browser plugin, integrated with Chrome and offered for Firefox, but not
available for Internet Explorer. Maybe they'll offer one once it goes live,
but I wouldn't count on it. Even so, odds are good that users won't have
it installed anyway.