JavaScript is the "VM" to target for D

[Eric Poggel]

On 4/20/2010 6:26 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> Eric Poggel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> So I guess the thrust of my topic tonight is, could D somehow reinvent
>>> itself to fame and fortune in the high-level-language-for-JavaScript
>>> space?
>>>
>>> Justin Johansson
>>
>> I've done a significant amount of web-app development myself, but to
>> me this seems like a bad idea. If I want to sit down and write
>> something quickly and don't care about performance, JavaScript or Haxe
>> are great languages to do it in and can be more productive than D.
>> However, even the best JavaScript vm's (like V8) are on average 10x
>> slower than C++/D. So if performance matters, I always chose D.
>>
>> If I write D to run on a JavaScript VM, I lose both the productivity
>> of JavaScript and the speed of D.
>
> Thanks for the reality check; probably it's a silly idea. Nevertheless
> I'm glad to have inquired as, even though I like the idea of optional
> static typing in Haxe, I'll be reconsidering whether using Haxe in a new
> web project is a good idea also. One thing I can't figure out is why
> Haxe is not as popular as it "should" be. Maybe for similar reasons as
> you say?
>
> Cheers
> Justin

I haven't used Haxe, but why reconsider using it?

I should've also clarified that I'm usually more productive in 
JavaScript for small projects because it usually takes less code for the 
same thing, but more so in D for large ones due to the benefits of 
static typing.