Github and enthusiasm

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 16:33:27 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

> So Sebastiaan Koppe's work on WebAssembly might become 
> significant. Language contenders with tight codegen, good 
> debugging support (DWARF) and low memory usage could easily 
> take off in the next 2-3 years.

Yes, he's doing critically important work to make D available in 
more places. Not my area at all, but clearly a big target.

> Another integration path to watch out for is Dart. Who is now 
> getting foreign function invocation so that means D could 
> attach itself to Flutter (GUI for iOS, Android, Desktop and 
> Web) and benefit from that ecosystem. I think arrays are still 
> missing though.

I've looked into this, and dpp gives it to us for free, as far as 
I can tell. Friendly wrappers will improve the experience, but 
the big hurdle of bindings to the basic functionality is already 
solved.