D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 29.02.2012 23:40, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 19:10:27 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> If you are serious about dmd I would recommend it, as I've spent weeks
>> to figure out proper try/catch/finally implementation and fix closures
>> that were broken.
>
> Indeed, I still have a copy of your zip from before.
>
> I tried to do it too, but I never got a lot of things
> working quite right; it'd sometimes crash, I replaced the
> AAs with a linear lookup since I didn't get that working
> right either.

I ended up using hacked RandAA by David Simcha, it works quite well. 
It's a somewhat slow on reads comapred to d's native one, but sure it's 
more stable ;)

>
> Your version worked well, as I recall.
>
>
> But on dmdscript vs v8, v8 is faster, but I'm not too
> concerned about speed.
>
> A couple big advantages dmdscript has are:
>
> a) I expect it will be easier to integrate in D apps
>
> b) I already know its source code, so if I want to hack new
> things on to the language, it won't be a big todo.
>
> c) license is a little more permissive.
>
>
>
> The big one though is familiarity with the source.

Agreed, it's very clean and lean for full interpreter (not to mention 
built-ins).
-- 
Dmitry Olshansky