Is D really terrible for web?

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Sun Nov 2 20:21:02 UTC 2025


On Sunday, 2 November 2025 at 17:13:27 UTC, RexFactorem wrote:
> Here is the quote from the repo:
>
>> D could arguably be #2 either tied with or displacing C++ if 
>> we're just talking about Desktop without web support. D's 
>> dstep tool and importc language feature make interop with C 
>> pretty easy. It has componet wise array operations similar to 
>> Odin which is nice. For me the big problem with D is that its 
>> wasm support is terrible. You can really only use it with 
>> betterC which is D's limited mode that restricts it to an 
>> enhanced C subset. When I was asking questions about using D's 
>> betterC with wasm one discord user kept refering to it as 
>> worse D, which might sound negative but is 100% accurate. Many 
>> of the things that make D good don't work in better C. Overall 
>> using D on desktop is great, but its terrible for the web and 
>> wasm.

That's written in the Graphics section, so it's about OpenGL and 
wasm (web graphics) support. Since he was disappointed with wasm 
support, he didn't explore D further.


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