D for the web?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message 
news:jfk4f6$2elm$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 23/01/12 17:21, 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.
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> Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a horrible idea? :)
>

It's horrible, but not as horrible as using straight JavaScript (or 
CoffeeScript, IMO).

It's a necessary evil thanks to JavaScript's underserved ubiquity.