D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 18 June 2015 at 18:07, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 18/06/2015 8:05 p.m., 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
>
>
> I saw it.
> I'm waiting for some sort of spec or example toolchain.
>
> Once we have that I'd be willing to work on bindings and tutorial for it.
> I honestly see no reason to not add it as a targetType to dub. Would be
> pretty awesome to write both client side and server in D using it.

We could *really* do with an Emscripten or NaCl toolchain in the mean time! :)
We have commercial products in those platforms, and we'd *love* to use
D at work, but support for those 'platforms' is the key thing holding
us back.