On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 14:21:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
most minimal, few D features actually work:
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/minimal.d
slightly less minimal, with a few more things working:
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/minimal.zip
I haven't spent a lot of time on this, more just wondering if
it could be done, so most of D still doesn't actually work but
enough does for hello world (on linux here) at least. The
example minimal.d program will spit out its own name and a
newline when you run it, demonstrating command line args work,
as well as a custom type.
Ye, there is also https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd , quite a
mature attempt. But issue is not creating minimal run-time, it is
creating minimal one that still has most part of language usable.
Quoting one of reddit comments: "You still have all the other
language features, including unique pointers, generics, trait
objects, stack/unique closures, etc."
Currently possibility of D run-time tweaking is very limited by
compiler expectations about its capabilities. Automatic memory
allocation is widely known but emitting TypeInfo's for almost
everything is as much painful.
