D => asm.js for the web?

[Dan]

On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 02:39:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> So there is no way translating from language X to language Y 
> will be
> faster than writing in language Y in the first place, no matter 
> how good
> your optimizer is. Otherwise, you might as well just write in 
> language Y
> to begin with, and run the optimizer on *that*.

Too strong of a statement, especially since focus is only 
strength of optimizer and not also caliber of developers. There 
is huge benefit and it is one of the big selling points of Dart. 
You write in a familiar OOP language with great toolset and out 
comes working javascript. I don't know javascript - I've started 
to learn a few times but was repelled by it. But most traditional 
OO programmers can grok Dart in a few days, plus it has great 
tools. If D could do the same it would be great.

Thanks,
Dan