Native Client in Chrome Beta

[Timon Gehr]

On 08/13/2011 08:51 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Peter Alexander"<peter.alexander.au at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:j26bai$2uot$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 13/08/11 4:04 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:10:07 +0300, bearophile
>>> <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's one (the only?) chance to use D in the browser.
>>>
>>> * An LLVM back-end exists which emits JavaScript. I believe I've seen
>>> Doom on HTML5.
>>> * D.NET may be dead, but it would allow running D on Silverlight.
>>> * Lastly, Adobe has an LLVM backend for generating ActionScript 3
>>> bytecode (Adobe Alchemy).
>>>
>>
>> None of those are actually D code running natively though.
>
> Yea. But it's all better than nothing, though. I mean, if you have to run
> something on JS/AS3/Silverlight, it's better than not being able to use D at
> all.
>
> Speaking of, anyone know of any good tutorials for making an LLVM backend?
> Preferably geared at someone with no compiler-backend experience? I've
> looked at LLVM's docs, but I couldn't make heads or tails of a single word
> of it.
>
>

Actually, the docs contain a nice introductory tutorial on how to use 
llvm to make a backend:
http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/