On 26/05/2018 2:13 AM, meppl wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 01:51:35 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
>>
>>> Let the brainstorming begin!
>>
>> Make WebAssembly a thing in D.
>>
>> See https://forum.dlang.org/post/ejplfelcqsvjmdvxtsnq@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Currently C++ and Rust dominate that domain.  D could kick some web asm there too.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> I am curious about binary size of microservies on webpages. D-binaries tend to be bigger and the D garbage collector needs to be within them. Then we would have to rely on LLVM drastically reducing the binary size of static compiled apps.
> 
> If we say "its only for betterc" or "its only for bigger webapps and nodejs-webassembly", it would be half assed - and in my humble opinion too much of a disadvantage compared to rust. I might be wrong of course

Until web assembly's GC interface and TLS is designed, -betterC would be the correct solution for us going forward.

On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 02:38:17 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
>
>> Let the brainstorming begin!
>
> Fork newCTFE and bring it to completion:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2017/04/10/the-new-ctfe-engine/
>
> Mike

I am still working on newCTFE, creating a fork would needlessly duplicate effort.
And is most likely very wasteful, consider that I have much more experience with the code.

I feel offended by the notion that newCTFE is stagnating.