Advertise D's great compatibilty with JavaScript

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 19/06/2017 2:57 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 23:11:25 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 18/06/2017 5:29 PM, Meta wrote:
>>> We should be careful not to make *too* close a comparison. While 
>>> Javascript is a necessary evil for web applications and some people 
>>> do like it, I get the feeling that it's becoming less and less liked. 
>>> It's not quite a fractal of bad design like PHP, but it has more than 
>>> a few drastic shortcomings and design flaws.
>>
>> The moment webasm becomes a realistic target, I will do EVERYTHING in 
>> my power to get Lua in the browser (yes there already is solutions).
>>
>> Stuff Javascript, kill it, replace it with something actually properly 
>> designed!
> 
> Why not D? And why wait till it's a realistic target? Wasm is clearly 
> going to be the answer and it's an answer to a problem that exists, so 
> what does one gain by waiting?

(1) eval
(2) time+not all API's required are available just yet.