On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:26:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
Wow, quite an opportunity for D I'd say. A D frontend able to
interop with the myriads of existing Javascript libraries, using
the browser's GC and its DOM as GUI toolkit. Coupled with a
vibe.d backend. Frontend and backend sharing D files describing
their common interface.
