Experiments with emscripten and D

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 12:48:49 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 11:21:52 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 04:52:16 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> I feel pretty confident I can do a wat speech for D.
>>
>> I can't think of many wats. There are questionable design 
>> decisions, annoying things that look like they should compile 
>> but don't (local variable alias to non-global template errors 
>> anyone?) and performance pitfalls, but nothing so gloriously 
>> broken as what javascript achieves.
>>
>
> I know many of them. That is probably because I'm working on 
> SDC, so I have to dig into dark corner of the language, 
> nevertheless, it is really possible to do.
>
> In fact I planned to do it, but Denis Korskin warned me about 
> the bad image it would create of D, and I have to admit he was 
> right, so I abandoned the idea.

I presume they are at least documented somewhere? A page on the 
wiki? I'd be interested to see them myself. Who knows, maybe some 
of them are fixable?

>> Coming from a C(++) perspective has prevented a lot of 
>> complete gibbering insanity from occurring. In particular, 
>> having a basic respect for data-layout at the machine level 
>> and an ethos of not doing very costly implicit type 
>> type-conversions has staved off a whole horde of crazy.
>
> I'm not here for nothing :D

good point :)