On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 10:24:14 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
But this BetterC minimalistic standard library (allocations,
arrays, strings, slices, maps) is something which can be reused
by many similar hardware-level projects.
This is a project on its own, and as I said, I think it should
better be provided to the candidate so he can use his
development time on developing the rasterizer, and, if there is
enough time, a minimalistic nuklear-like gui system over it to
demonstrate its performance and usefulness.
Indeed, having to port the druntime to new hardware is definitely
not in scope. I can't anticipate what features of the language
the developer will employ, but as long as they stay within the
-betterC subset of the language, I think it will be portable to
something like that used in
https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo
Even if it isn't portable, if it compiles and runs in -betterC on
a PC, it will still be an excellent foundation to build on, and
I'd still call it a success.
Mike
