D for the web?

[Tobias Pankrath]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Tobias Pankrath" <tobias at pankrath.net> wrote in message
> news:jfkn05$h2n$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Google Web Toolkit works quite well.
> 
> I'd have a hard time trusting it. Would the resulting code necessarily use
> Ajax even if I didn't want it to? How much JS overhead does it pull in for
> simple uses of JS? Does the resulting code automatically interact with
> Google's servers in any way? How compatible is the resulting JS? Would the
> resulting code break the page when JS is off? It's Google, for god's sake,
> can they even be trusted at all? Etc.

Can't see any technical argument here.