On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > "Trass3r" <u...@known.com> wrote in message news:op.v1edf3bj3ncmek@enigma... > >> I've heard that our company is considering the T20 from Toradex.com for > >> a new project with remote hardware. The platform runs on Nvidia Tegra > >> and Linux. > >> > >> Since I have been very impressed by the D programming language, for some > >> years now, could it be possible to use D in such projects? > > > > You'd have to use gdc or ldc and patch at least druntime. > > Some people already managed to get stuff running on ARM but it's tricky. > > I think the GC is problematic, thus you also have to avoid most of > phobos. > > For a language that aims at C/C++'s domain, it's extremely depressing that > this is still the case. I *really* think this needs to be one of D's top > priorities at this point. I honestly see it as D's #1 biggest glaring hole > ATM (Honestly, I've always cared about embedded/non-x86 processors *far* > more than the native 64-bit support that got enormous attention awhile > back). 'Course I'm kinda just blowing smoke out my ass since I > unfortunately > have neither the time nor ability to help tackle this goal :( > > The problem is that the most direct way to do this is to use a compiler backend that isn't Digital Mars, and there's far fewer people working on other backends. This is why I asked whether anything had happened with GCC inclusion a while back. If that could happen, D would get a large leap forward in this area.
I agree that a systems language that only works on x86/x86_64 is a depressing concept, and I think it's about to become unacceptable in the next few years.
