Moving back to .NET

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 18:29:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

>>
>> It'd be nice to have asm.js or even JS.
>
> Look at Adam Ruppe's D to JavaScript compiler.  It hasn't been 
> maintained, but it was a very interesting experiment.
>
> I wish there were more interest in having LDC generate JS via 
> LLVM a la emscripten.  Some serious people think it's not that 
> difficult.

To be honest, rather than having IDEs and all the bells and 
whistles (which started this thread), I'd prefer D to cater for 
things like asm.js and ARM processors. Nim got it right in the 
sense that it allows developers to write code and ship it to web 
browsers and everything else that understands JS. Writing JS is a 
pain in the "sit upon", being able to write code in a decent 
language and have it output as JS is great. There's no way around 
the web, i.e. JS.

@Ola

That said one has to be careful when looking at other languages 
such as Go and Rust. I remember the VM fashion a couple of years 
back (mainly Java and C#), but still languages that compile to 
native code kept coming up and now everyone goes native, 
including the VM supporters. Why? Cos it didn't work and 
everybody working with Java realized that, it's too fookin slow. 
How can we tell that Go is the way to go (pardon the pun)? Maybe 
in a few years' time the thing to do will be library based memory 
management. One of D's strengths is to be impervious to fashion 
and to try to do what's right and what works. Ironically enough, 
C++ is playing catch up with D. D might not get the credit that's 
due, but D proves that certain concepts work better than others. 
But who ever gives credit to the lab rats? :-)