Experiments with emscripten and D

[John Colvin]

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 18:51:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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. :)
>
>
> T

Yeah the server-side is relatively easy to pull off, seeing as 
you're completely in control there.

The client side is an eensy little bit harder haha. It would 
probably require heavily modifying/creating a new web-browser and 
then convincing people to use it.

I wonder how powerful browser extensions can be these days...