Experiments with emscripten and D

[John Colvin]

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 16:35:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Rob T wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 14:42:19 UTC, Gambler wrote:
>> >Every time I do, I get the urge to abandon programming and 
>> >change
>> >my occupation.
>> 
>> My thoughts too, The Internet is ripe for another revolution, 
>> but
>> the old ways need to be abandoned rather than continually 
>> propped up
>> with duct tape and thread. You can barely create simple 
>> applications
>> using current html+js tools, and Flash and so forth consume 
>> vast
>> amounts of memory and cpu power which can  stress out even a 
>> full
>> blown desktop computer if you are a heavy browser user like I 
>> am,
>> yet most "personal computers" are now low powered mobile 
>> devices
>> which makes the situation really bad.
>> 
>> IMO the current direction leads to a dead end.
>> 
>> The big boys like Google, Mozilla and MS seem more interested 
>> in
>> fighting each other over world domination rather than come up 
>> with
>> viable alternatives that can lead the way out of this mess.
> [...]
>
> It's just like Nick Sabalausky always likes to rant about. In 
> 1975, we
> had slow 8-bit computers with 8kHz CPUs and 64kB of RAM, and our
> applications ran rather slowly.  Then processor speed increased
> exponentially, RAM increased exponentially, and today we have 
> 64-bit
> computers with 4GHz CPUs (and multicore!) and who knows how 
> many GBs of
> RAM, and our (web) applications run at about the same speed as 
> in 1975.
> Clearly, *something* is very, very wrong with this picture.
>
>
> T

How do we fix it? We have a great language here, let's 
revolutionise the web :p