Justin Johansson schrieb: > I'm just wondering for a moment if D might be a good vehicle for > developing a browser extension for Firefox, or any other browser for > that matter. > > Has anyone either considered doing, or has actually done, any browser > extension development with D and have some thoughts or experience to share? > > Thanks for all feedback, > Justin Johansson
As an extension, there might be more than one extension running in one Firefox process. Each extension written in D must bring in its own GC, here comes the problem. The GC is implemented in D using signals, which are global to the process. So if there are two D extensions, they will get confused by each other. This is also the reason, i give up about running D and Java in the same process. Also Java uses those signals for its own GC. But nevertheless, if you want to give it a try, the DWT firefox bindings might be of interest for you.
