On 14 September 2013 19:47, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
If it did, there would be quite a few bits missing as much of D can not be easily represented in C. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
