Linus' idea of "good taste" code

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 16:14:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On 10/27/2016 07:12 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 16:01:26 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 15:54:59 UTC, Jonathan M 
>>> Davis wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, October 27, 2016 15:42:53 Chris via 
>>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>>> Not easy to be smart with Javascript ;)
>>>>
>>>> Sure, it is. Avoid it. ;)
>>>>
>>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> I wish I could! I wish we had DScript for browsers!
>> 
>> I am hoping that when asm.js is more mature,  then we can use 
>> the llvm back end to write at least part of front end in D.   
>> Would need runtime ported of course.
>
> I consider native compiler from D to WebAssembly to be one of 
> possible unique breakthrough points for D in coming years.

I asked Kai at dconf about what would be involved in porting to 
wasm,  but I think he misheard me,  as his answer was just 
generically about what was involved in porting to a new platform.

Any thoughts on how much work is involved to port the runtime?  
And what other changes might be involved? The chap that used the 
C backend for LLVM wrote a little mini runtime but I guess didn't 
have to worry about the version blocks in the compiler front end 
as much.   (don't recall what architecture he pretended to be 
compiling to).

Glibc has obviously already been ported to run in browser by 
emscripten.