On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:14:09 +0200 Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14/09/13 00:51, Justin Whear wrote: > > Just ran across this: http://www.zimbu.org/ > > A language by Bram Moolenaar (original author and maintainer of > > vim). The "Why Zimbu?" section on the right side of the homepage has > > comparisons to other languages. D is the last comparison, > > suggesting that it meets all the other qualifications but fails on > > "It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is > > out." > > Theoretically, shouldn't GDC be able to support just about any > architecture for which GCC has a backend? The runtime and Phobos > need porting, but the core language itself should be usable, no? And doesn't LLVM have a way to compile D *to* C?
