• Matt (11/11) Sep 18 2013 So is DMDScript still useful? I remember it having a Firefox and
• Adam D. Ruppe (30/38) Sep 18 2013 It used to be a lot faster than Firefox and IE, but over the
• Adam D. Ruppe (2/2) Sep 18 2013 BTW I don't often check this newsgroup, so if you CC my email on

"Matt" <no nope.com> writes:

So is DMDScript still useful? I remember it having a Firefox and 
IE plugin, but is there any reason to use it over javascript, 
besides its speed? What differentiates the two?

As an aside, I've been made aware of the idea of embedding it in 
another program, but I don't have any experience of this, nor 
have I seen any examples\tutorials. If someone could either 
explain how to go about this, or point me in the direction of 
decent examples\tutorials, I would be much appreciative.

I'm aware that not everyone can, nor are prepared to answer both 
of these questions, but I am always appreciative of any help I 
can get, so thank you guys in advance.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 00:38:30 UTC, Matt wrote:
 I remember it having a Firefox and IE plugin, but is there any 
 reason to use it over javascript, besides its speed?

It used to be a lot faster than Firefox and IE, but over the 
years, they have gotten a lot faster and dmdscript really hasn't.

Nowadays, the major browser js engines are much faster than 
dmdscript, and have gotten some new features that dmdscript lacks 
too.

Bottom line though is dmdscript is pretty old now and you might 
be better off using one of the newer javascript engines.

That said, I played with dmdscript for a while so let me talk 
about that..

 As an aside, I've been made aware of the idea of embedding it 
 in another program, but I don't have any experience of this, 
 nor have I seen any examples\tutorials.

It is easier if you find a port to D2... but they have probably 
fallen out of date too. I did it myself a year or two ago and it 
wasn't too hard, but did take a little while.

Here's mine:
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/dmdscript_mine.zip

hasn't been updated for a long time, but if you look at the file 
pretty.d, it might help see how I extended it: the addFunction 
near the bottom of the code has a template to automatically wrap 
native functions for script use, and registers them.

A couple other people did too:

https://github.com/blackwhale/DMDScript

...and another one but I can't remember the link or who did it. 
But I don't think any of them have been kept up to date too.

But I do still have a copy of the code on my computer:

http://arsdnet.net/dcode/dmdscript_d2.zip


So, if you want to extend dmdscript with D1, it isn't as pretty 
as with D2 but still doable. This is the basic process used in my 
D2 pretty.d port too:

http://digitalmars.com/dscript/extending.html

 If someone could either explain how to go about this, or point 
 me in the direction of decent examples\tutorials, I would be 
 much appreciative.

eh my code isn't really great but it's a start.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

BTW I don't often check this newsgroup, so if you CC my email on 
any replies, I'll see it a lot faster that way.