On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 20:26:23 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan
wrote:
Hi,
I finally managed to compile some D code to asm.js, using
Emscripten.
It had been done by one dude several years ago, but some
changes in the inner workings of Emscripten (the introduction
of fastcomp, also probably combined with changes in the way LDC
generates LLVM bitcode) made it impossible to use the same
technique.
You can play a minimalistic demo:
http://code.alaiwan.org/dscripten/full.html
The source code + toolchain deployment scripts are available on
github:
https://github.com/Ace17/dscripten
And a blogpost explaining the technique is available here:
http://code.alaiwan.org/wp/?p=103
(Spoiler: at some point, it involves lowering the source code
back to C)
Please let me know what you think!
Cool. I think the D Foundation should actively support stuff like
this (once funding and resources are secured). Mobile
(iOS/Android) and asm.js. That's where huge shares of the market
are, it's a "must have".
PS I don't like WASD in the game, I'm not left handed ;)
