JavaScript is the "VM" to target for D

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 15:43:26 PDT 2010


Justin Johansson wrote:

> KennyTM~ wrote:
>> On Apr 22, 10 14:52, Lutger wrote:
>>> I don't think javascript is suited for this purpose, but perhaps
>>> silverlight
>>> / moonlight is. A D compiler targetting the CoreCLR could be big,
>>> depending
>>> on how this platform takes off.
>> 
>> D.NET?
> 
> D.NET (D.CLR), D.JVM, D.ECMAScript, anything except D.assembler would
> have a lot of market appeal.  I would hesitate at D.LLVM though as
> that's not where the "money" is, sadly (imho).

llvm has vmkit though, which can target both .net and java runtimes, I have 
no idea how mature that is. It could be a route to silverlight, meaning 
webapps in D. SafeD might be important here for interop.

http://vmkit.llvm.org/ 



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