Ideas for students' summer projects

[rikki cattermole]

On 26/05/2018 2:13 AM, meppl wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 01:51:35 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
>>
>>> Let the brainstorming begin!
>>
>> Make WebAssembly a thing in D.
>>
>> See https://forum.dlang.org/post/ejplfelcqsvjmdvxtsnq@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Currently C++ and Rust dominate that domain.  D could kick some web 
>> asm there too.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> I am curious about binary size of microservies on webpages. D-binaries 
> tend to be bigger and the D garbage collector needs to be within them. 
> Then we would have to rely on LLVM drastically reducing the binary size 
> of static compiled apps.
> 
> If we say "its only for betterc" or "its only for bigger webapps and 
> nodejs-webassembly", it would be half assed - and in my humble opinion 
> too much of a disadvantage compared to rust. I might be wrong of course

Until web assembly's GC interface and TLS is designed, -betterC would be 
the correct solution for us going forward.