dmd codegen improvements

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/02/2015 11:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/2/2015 7:48 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> but still i'm meh on the practical usefulness of such things. I guess
>> if you
>> target a canvas and run your code in it that makes more sense but my
>> preferred
>> style is a progressive enhancement webpage where you want to know the
>> browser
>> platform and work with it rather than around it.
>
> I don't see a whole lot of point to generating JS from another language.
> You can't do anything more than JS can do, and you're likely to be doing
> less.
>

The premise here is that Javascript is a lock-in for code that can run 
in the browser. So to get D code to run in the browser you'd need to 
generate Javascript. This concern is orthogonal to relative capabilities 
of languages etc. -- Andrei