D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2012-02-29 18:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>> news:jilnie$1fsr$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 29-02-2012 18:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 2/26/12 9:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>>> https://github.com/downloads/adamdruppe/dtojs/dtojs.zip
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting. So the idea is to make an entire subset of D
>>>> convertible to Javascript?
>>>>
>>>> What use cases do you have in mind?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>>
>>>
>>> Avoiding writing JS directly in web apps comes to mind.
>>>
>>
>> Yea, creating JS without having to actually *write* JS is a huge use-case 
>> in
>> and of itself.
>>
>> (I still can't believe the web has standardized on such an absolute shit
>> langauge. Hell, two of them if you count PHP on the server.)
>
> Five if you count HTML, CSS and SQL as well.
>

Very true, but a far as shittiness goes, JS and PHP are in a whole other 
league (IMO).

Actually, HTML/CSS for what they are - *document* description formats - 
really aren't all that bad. The only real *major* problem with HTML/CSS is 
not the formats themselves, but the fact that people keep abusing them as 
application presentation layers, which they clearly aren't and were never 
intended to be. (And basing an entire application around the 
deliberately-stateless HTTP? Seriously? WTF?)

Latex isn't bad (from what little I've seen), but if people started 
pretending it was a presentation layer for programs, then yea, it would 
completely blow for that. But that's exactly what people did with HTML/CSS. 
So HTML and CSS get a bad reputation when really the true blame lies with 
the people pushing for their misuse. (Not that HTML/CSS couldn't be improved 
even as pure document formats.)