D language as script through JVM

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On Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 00:48:44 UTC, Alexey Egorov wrote:
> I think what D can be a perfect script language. Even more, i 
> think it will can become very popular language, if it will be 
> possible to use it as script language.

Try rdmd (http://dlang.org/rdmd.html)

It actually do compilation. But the idea is when compiler is 
lightning-fast (which dmd is), there is no practical difference 
to interpreter.
Though I don't know what the limit in terms of script size is, 
but for sure it's above 1000 lines of code, which will be enough 
for a lot of use cases.


> I think there is no problems to make, for example, compiler for 
> Java Virtual Machine.

I'm not a compiler writer, but I've read recently [1] that .NET 
VM is too limited to implement even @safe D. I would think JVM is 
the same in this regard.


> I know, you will say what D designed for run-time

IIRC actually community was pretty excited when rdmd came out.



[1] 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xm5y0/d_260_released_d_programming_language/c5nqlaz