Experiments with emscripten and D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 08:41:39PM +0200, John Colvin wrote:
> 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

Yeah! vibe.d FTW! :) And the client-side version thereof. :)


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