How can D become adopted at my company?

Trass3r un at known.com
Tue Apr 24 05:40:41 PDT 2012


> My understanding is that Facebook is sponsoring D.  At least in some  
> capacity, I’m not sure of the details or extent.  But still, it’s a  
> start, and important, and Facebook has monetary resources.

Andrei works at facebook, that's all.

> Web framework.  What do people use Ruby on Rails, or slightly less  
> popular Python and Django for?  Is D a suitable alternative?

See Adam Ruppe's work.

> Scripting.  Many games use Lua as an embedded scripting language.   With  
> mixin we could write our own DSL in D.  Possibly even re-implement  
> Lua-in-D.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

> So why not just use Lua itself in D?  Because Lua has a nice Lua-to-C  
> API, and in my opinion having Lua-in-D would be able to leverage some of  
> D’s strengths and make the scripting language seamless.

LuaD.

> kernel in D.

XOmB.

> Can D get on that bandwagon and have the D compiler compile to  
> JavaScript as some sort of IL?

Theoretically. See emscripten.


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