March 14, 2016
On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:14:17 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 07:46:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 15:01:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>>> [...]
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>> You got your wish, they just exposed webasm through v8 a couple days ago:
>>
>> [...]
>
> I am still getting student interest in new proposals ... are you interested in mentoring?

I'm not qualified to mentor a WebAssembly port, as I'm not versed on compilers or IR.  Dan would probably be best, as he got a lot of the ARM codegen to work for iOS, try him?  Maybe Ola would be interested too.

I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.
March 14, 2016
On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:14:17 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 07:46:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 15:01:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> You got your wish, they just exposed webasm through v8 a couple days ago:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I am still getting student interest in new proposals ... are you interested in mentoring?
>
> I'm not qualified to mentor a WebAssembly port, as I'm not versed on compilers or IR.  Dan would probably be best, as he got a lot of the ARM codegen to work for iOS, try him?  Maybe Ola would be interested too.
>
> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.

Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring something like this?
March 15, 2016
On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 16:14:55 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.
>
> Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring something like this?

I haven't spent much time with the dmd compiler source beyond the parser/lexer and generally don't have much time in the summer season (we have farm), but I can chip in.

March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 11:56:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 16:14:55 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.
>>
>> Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring something like this?
>
> I haven't spent much time with the dmd compiler source beyond the parser/lexer and generally don't have much time in the summer season (we have farm), but I can chip in.

Maybe you can provide the students with fresh vegetables then :o)
March 15, 2016
CraigDillabaugh <craig.dillabaugh@gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:14:17 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>>
>> I'm not qualified to mentor a WebAssembly port, as I'm not versed on compilers or IR.  Dan would probably be best, as he got a lot of the ARM codegen to work for iOS, try him?  Maybe Ola would be interested too.
>>
>> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.
>
> Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring something like this?

I would, except I am currently a mentor for a student CubeSat project. I probably shouldn't take on more this year.

I don't know anything about WebAssembly, but if clang does a good job with targetting wasm, then teaching LDC to do the same could be a manageble project for a student in my opinion.  There might be some difficult problems. For example, I just looked and the LLVM WebAssembly target doesn't support thread-locals.  But that wouldn't stop progress.
-- 
Dan
March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 13:01:31 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 11:56:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 16:14:55 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>> I can chip in general input on porting, based on my Android experience.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Dan or Ola ... are either of you interested in mentoring something like this?
>>
>> I haven't spent much time with the dmd compiler source beyond the parser/lexer and generally don't have much time in the summer season (we have farm), but I can chip in.
>
> Maybe you can provide the students with fresh vegetables then :o)

Maybe deadalnix would be interested in mentoring, I think he showed some interest earlier.  Or worst case, 3-4 of us could tag team, if that's allowed.
March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 16:12:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Maybe deadalnix would be interested in mentoring, I think he showed some interest earlier.  Or worst case, 3-4 of us could tag team, if that's allowed.

I can. I know LLVM fairly well (I'm not a committer), but I do not have that much experience with WebAssembly.

March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 20:18:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 16:12:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Maybe deadalnix would be interested in mentoring, I think he showed some interest earlier.  Or worst case, 3-4 of us could tag team, if that's allowed.
>
> I can. I know LLVM fairly well (I'm not a committer), but I do not have that much experience with WebAssembly.

Oh, you don't have five years experience with WebAssembly?  We won't even look at the rest of your resume, straight into the trash it goes. :)
March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 20:18:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 16:12:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Maybe deadalnix would be interested in mentoring, I think he showed some interest earlier.  Or worst case, 3-4 of us could tag team, if that's allowed.
>
> I can. I know LLVM fairly well (I'm not a committer), but I do not have that much experience with WebAssembly.

s/not/now .
March 15, 2016
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 20:18:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I can. I know LLVM fairly well (I'm not a committer), but I do not have that much experience with WebAssembly.

Yes, please!

I'd volunteer myself, but this summer will be too busy for me academically.

 — David