D for the web?

F i L witte2008 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 08:43:05 PST 2012


On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 16:21:35 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
> Just discovered this LLVM-to-Javascript translator: 
> http://emscripten.org/
> Looks really interesting, they even converted CPython.
>
> Might be interesting for D as well.
> Question is how the low-level stuff in druntime would work out.

Javascript really is a pretty limited language and I'd imagine a 
lot of unexpected behavior from D-to-JS programs. There are 
better languages for large client-side web apps like 
Coffeescript, Obective-J, and Dart.

D running on Google's Native Client looks more promising.


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