Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 February 2012 at 19:27:57 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
Can it compile a function to native code and JS simultaneously? I want
to execute the same code on both client and server side.
You'd have to run dmd twice because it exits before getting
to the backend when doing js.
But you can run the same code:
dmd -md file.d # outputs file.js
dmd file.d # outputs file.exe
I see.
You might need versions or something for library support,
but that's just because I haven't ported much over yet.
I realize that work on project has just begun :)
I just now tried:
import std.algorithm;
auto range = sort!"a < b"(["b", "a"]);
window.alert(range.front);
.. and it produced 44 KB of Javascript
code that *almost* worked.
44 KB - that's not bad!
Looks like I have to fix the dollar expression,
but otherwise, almost usable.
Some time ago, I was interested in translation to JS, but I rather
thought about binary translation, like in http://bellard.org/jslinux/.
There's similar "emscripten" project which translates LLVM bytecode to
JS: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten. And there's also commercial
Morfik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morfik. Perhaps you might find
these links useful, if you don't know them already.
