D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-04 23:29, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 12:10:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-03-02 15:38, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 05:58:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> You make it sound as if there's another kind of JS.
>>>
>>> Horribly inefficient relative to the environment :P
>>>
>>> I just don't want 100 kb of crap to download just to
>>> write a hello world.
>>>
>>> A lot of people prefer to use gzipped sizes, but I don't
>>> because the browser still has to parse the whole thing,
>>> and that takes time after the download, even if you don't
>>> actually run any of it.
>>>
>>> (On some browsers, it parses it again on every page load!)
>>>
>>>
>>> This generated D code gzips very, very well, but I still
>>> want to keep it small in general for general speed.
>>>
>>> The fastest code is no code at all. Less to parse, less
>>> to run.
>>
>> No, we don't want to do it like Dart:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/1277224
>>
>> 17260 lines of code for Hello World.
>
> To be fair to Dart, that was from the initial preview release of
> it. They managed to get it quite a bit smaller a couple months
> ago. https://gist.github.com/1385015
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson

Seems they found a way to not include the complete runtime every time.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg