New backend why ?

On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 10:39:15 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> New backend why ?

Because I want to code a backend.
I want output C or maybe even Cool ...
generating UML via a backend would also be nice.

>I want output C or maybe even Cool ...
What's benefits this would give?

On Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 09:29:10 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> What's benefits this would give?

apart from the hack-factor a backend that generates _nice_ C-code is a really
usefil thing to have.
For example if you want to program microcontrollers in D.

My sdc32-experimental has now limited support for :
 * foreach on forward-ranges
 * inference of purity
 * checking the returnType of main

currently it CANNOT generate 32bit code anymore ...

On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 18:47:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 10:39:15 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
>> New backend why ?
>
> Because I want to code a backend.
> I want output C or maybe even Cool ...
> generating UML via a backend would also be nice.

Congrats on the project - v impressive.

How about Javascript or JSASM?  So we can write D on the browser?

On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 17:20:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

> How about Javascript or JSASM?  So we can write D on the browser?

You mean asm.js.
I will hook up emscripten soon. However the biggest issue is porting the runtime to javascript.