On 08/29/2014 07:07 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 18:06:00 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: >> "eles" wrote in message news:rixtiaiokrukvqjsf...@forum.dlang.org... >> >>> One such platform exists and is the embedded system, others are the >>> linux kernel and the like, and even others are writing D compiler >>> back-ends and, yes, druntimes (well, exactly the part that it is >>> called phobos-runtime above). >> >> An embedded system that can support all of D but doesn't have a >> cruntime? I don't believe it. If it has a cruntime then providing >> bindings is a non-issue, and if it can't support all of D then >> supporting only a subset (and then being free to exclude core.stdc) is >> inevitable. > > There was a D runtime years ago created as a separate project > around the time that Druntime had its beginnings (as Ares) that > had no dependencies on standard C. The creator went by Maide in > IRC, and she was doing some really cool stuff with it that made D > work kind of like ObjectiveC. I don't think it's in development > any more, but it's probably possible to track it down with enough > googling.
It's still available at dsource: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ares