On 3 September 2015 at 13:57, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 9/2/2015 7:48 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> >> but still i'm meh on the practical usefulness of such things. I guess if >> you >> target a canvas and run your code in it that makes more sense but my >> preferred >> style is a progressive enhancement webpage where you want to know the >> browser >> platform and work with it rather than around it. > > > I don't see a whole lot of point to generating JS from another language. You > can't do anything more than JS can do, and you're likely to be doing less.
You have a pile of existing code, you need to run it on a webpage, and don't have time/budget to rewrite that code. Emscripten is an opportunity, it is an enabling technology. Something that you can do and brings a nice business opportunity that you just wouldn't do otherwise, as in our case: http://udserver.euclideon.com/demo/ It would have been great if this were written in D, but we reverted to C++ because LDC doesn't support Emscripten (yet?). Our major active project at work also now depends on Emscripten and PNaCl; 2 exotic LDC targets which would get my office onto D quicksmart! I've never suffered C++ so violently.
