Webassembly?

[kinke via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:26:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 17:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 15:34:08 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
>>> Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D? 
>>> Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
>>>
>>> WebAssembly currently does not support a GC ...so it fair the 
>>> assume that this will be the main issue for LDC?
>>>
>>> I see the move towards one language for back and front-end as 
>>> the future.
>>
>> I'm just curious how it doesn't support GC? Like if you can 
>> allocate and free memory then you can have a GC.
>
> People usually point to this design doc:
>
> https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
>
> I don't know much about GC or their IR, but I get the 
> impression it's more about integrating with the browser's GC, 
> so you can seamlessly pass objects to javascript.  I believe 
> people have written their own GCs that target webasm, so the D 
> GC can likely be made to do the same.

Wow, quite an opportunity for D I'd say. A D frontend able to 
interop with the myriads of existing Javascript libraries, using 
the browser's GC and its DOM as GUI toolkit. Coupled with a 
vibe.d backend. Frontend and backend sharing D files describing 
their common interface.