On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 17:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 15:34:08 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D?
Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
WebAssembly currently does not support a GC ...so it fair the
assume that this will be the main issue for LDC?
I see the move towards one language for back and front-end as
the future.
I'm just curious how it doesn't support GC? Like if you can
allocate and free memory then you can have a GC.
People usually point to this design doc:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
I don't know much about GC or their IR, but I get the impression
it's more about integrating with the browser's GC, so you can
seamlessly pass objects to javascript. I believe people have
written their own GCs that target webasm, so the D GC can likely
be made to do the same.
