Experiments with emscripten and D

[Manu]

On 16 August 2013 07:55, Piotr Szturmaj <bncrbme at jadamspam.pl> wrote:

> bearophile:
>
>  Piotr Szturmaj:
>>
>>  Then open sdl.html in the web browser. It should print sorted and
>>> mapped array contents and run simple graphics demo.
>>>
>>
>> Very nice. D is meant to run efficiently, but the Web is very important.
>> There are many situations where it could be useful to run D code in a
>> browser, so your work is important.
>>
>> Integration with asm.js too is useful. (Expecially when asm.js gets a
>> garbage collection, as Mozilla says). Currently only C and C++ are
>> perhaps the only two languages usable to write asm.js+WebGL games for
>> the browser. This could become one of the few niches open for D. There
>> is also WebCL (http://www.khronos.org/webcl/ ) for heavy computations in
>> the browser.
>>
>
> Also D is garbage collected like JS. This means that high level code
> translation (like Adam D. Ruppe's work) should be more straightforward. On
> the other hand translating LLVM IR opens the possibility to mix D with
> C/C++ libraries.
>
>
>  I have found some related activity from Rust people:
>> https://github.com/mozilla/**rust/issues/2235<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2235>
>> https://github.com/Yoric/**Mozilla-Student-Projects/**issues/33<https://github.com/Yoric/Mozilla-Student-Projects/issues/33>
>> https://mail.mozilla.org/**pipermail/rust-dev/2012-April/**001607.html<https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-April/001607.html>
>>
>> Once your work is more more completed, the dlang site could show (in a
>> sub-page) the compiler that compiles the online examples of the docs
>> that's able to produce html+JS on the fly from the D code written in the
>> browser.
>>
>
> Yes, and it could be used to write rich web applications (which is the
> reason I'm working on it). JavaScript certainly wasn't created for big
> codebases...
>
> The other big advantage would having one codebase shared between server,
> browser (including mobile) and desktop apps.
>

^^ this!
I've been looking into this too recently.
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