D could catch this wave: web assembly

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 08:05:48 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> This appears to have involvement from all major browser 
> vendors, which provides hope it might actually catch on 
> properly. An llvm backend will be created which will compile to 
> "wasm", hopefully LDC and/or SDC could glue to this.
>
> https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/
>
> https://github.com/WebAssembly
>
> In particular, see 
> https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelGoals.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md and https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/MVP.md

What a fucking waste. We had that years ago with NaCl. Mozilla 
really fucked up on that one.

Let's how that goes. I'd be supportive of any effort for SDC to 
support this, but really don't have enough bandwidth to work on 
it myself.