I'd love to see DScript one day ...

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On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 09:23:55 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 22:01:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/10/2016 3:55 AM, Chris wrote:
>> > Cool. I'd love to see `DScript` one day - and replace JS once
>> and for all ...
>> > well ... just day dreaming ...
>>
>> Dreams are reality:
>>
>> https://github.com/DigitalMars/DMDScript
>
> Thanks for opening a new thread about this topic.
>
> Does DMDScript work with the latest version of D2? I once 
> wanted to use DMDScript as a server side JS with vibe.d, but 
> there were issues concerning versions of D etc. so I dropped 
> the idea.
>
> However, with `DScript` I meant a new scripting language that 
> can draw on the power of D, not necessarily a re-implementation 
> of JS. Adam[1] and ketmar[2] have already worked on D based 
> scripting languages. I wonder, if there is interest in creating 
> a D-based (not `debased`) scripting language. D has features 
> that are perfect for scripting or DS languages. Why not try 
> something new? Having a child language might also help with D 
> development in general, who knows.

Do you want a scripting language in general or a browser language?

I have given up hope for different browser languages than 
Javascript. The problem is not finding a language. A lot of 
people would love to have Lua, Python, or something else and it 
has not happened yet. Dart was the most serious attempt. They had 
full-time people at Google working on it and they gave up. The 
problem is that Javascript is tightly coupled to the DOM data 
structures. Disentangling that und inserting a layer in between 
there is the hard part. Oh, and you have to do this for all the 
major browser engines.

If you just want to have a general purpose scripting language 
(e.g. for a game) you can use Lua, Javascript, TCL, and others 
already. How would you improve upon them?