D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Dan Olson via Digitalmars-d]

CraigDillabaugh <craig.dillabaugh at gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:14:17 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>>
>> I'm not qualified to mentor a WebAssembly port, as I'm not versed on
>> compilers or IR.  Dan would probably be best, as he got a lot of the
>> ARM codegen to work for iOS, try him?  Maybe Ola would be interested
>> too.
>>
>> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android
>> experience.
>
> Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring
> something like this?

I would, except I am currently a mentor for a student CubeSat project.
I probably shouldn't take on more this year.

I don't know anything about WebAssembly, but if clang does a good job
with targetting wasm, then teaching LDC to do the same could be a
manageble project for a student in my opinion.  There might be some
difficult problems. For example, I just looked and the LLVM WebAssembly
target doesn't support thread-locals.  But that wouldn't stop progress.
-- 
Dan