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

Mon Jun 13 21:09:56 PDT 2016

On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 03:31:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:36:48AM +0000, Yuxuan Shui via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 00:55:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> > On 6/13/2016 5:13 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > > My *real* dream is for D (or some suitable subset thereof) 
>> > > to replace Javascript in browsers.  But that's a very 
>> > > distant, if at all even possible, dream. :-D
>> > 
>> > It's a great dream!
>> 
>> Don't we have a pretty efficient JIT javascript implementation 
>> in D already?
>> 
>> https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs
>
> I know that. What I meant was that instead of writing 
> javascript we'd write D instead, in our webpages. Or at least, 
> some subset of D that's safe for the web. I.e., instead of:
>
> 	<html><head>
> 	<script type="text/javascript" src="myscript.js"/>
> 	...
>
> you'd write
>
> 	<html><head>
> 	<script type="text/d" src="myscript.d"/>
> 	...
>
> It's unlikely to happen in the near future, though, if at all. 
> But one can dream.  :-)
>
>
> T

I know its a dream but really whats wrong with JS in the browser? 
  Now with no need for JQuery and ES6 its not really that bad.  
Better to use it for a scripting lang and other things.  My 
opinion only..  If were dreamin Id rather see the next Kafka or 
Elasticsearch big idea written in D...