On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 08:53:36 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
I heard there was a bit of general interest on the subject, so would be interesting to hear about more potential use cases.
Like Franklin, I am programming a web page. It works fully with script, even the html elements are described in the script, not at the html document. Since JavaScript sucks as a source language, I use Bridge.NET to compile C# to it. From day one I decided that if my web page needs custom server code someday, Vibe.d is the first thing I will look at.
With so much logic on client-side, it is a tempting thought to use D there too. I have made a few test runs with LDC/Emscripten, but the biggest problem is unability to call most HTML element logic directly. Emsrcipten does have a c++ module to call custom JS classes, I am going to try it with Calypso someday.
This work is not exactly what I was looking for, as if I can call JavaScript I'll be able to call it's functions which should remove most of the need for a runtime, memory management excluded.
Definitely I can see it useful and worth following nonetheless: It will make porting a desktop application to a web page easier, or vice-versa. It's a tantalizing thought that one could start developing an application and only later decide whether a browser will host it or no. Of course, this would for most cases require a GUI that works in both enviroments.
