Advertise D's great compatibilty with JavaScript

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Oct 14 08:02:00 UTC 2017


On 10/14/2017 12:54 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 October 2017 at 07:45:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/18/2017 3:38 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>> Something I really appreciate a lot with D is how close it is to JavaScript.
>>
>> There's also a D implementation of Javascript:
>>
>> https://github.com/DigitalMars/DMDScript
> 
> The surprising strength of DMDScript is that it uses the same GC as D does, 
> making sharing of objects between JS and Host transparent and 0-copy.
> A typical JS engine run internal GC which the host has to interact with in 
> cumbersome ways b/c it doesn’t know about hosts’s memory.

I always thought DMDScript would be a great plugin extension language to use in 
a D IDE.


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