(from what i already know from forums)
On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 23:43:45 UTC, Mike wrote:
Language Questions:
1. Is D or WiLL D be a suitable language for these targets?
it is possible, but no work done to make it happens.
2. Is the D runtime required for bare metal programming? In
other words, if the D runtime has not yet been ported to these
targets, how far can one get using just D the language?
D runtime required if you need all that cool features like
slices, GC and other stuff. but you can use D without it. some
runtime/phobos ports for ARM already exists but i don't know
which or what status they are.
Compiler Questions:
1. What is the status of LDC & GDC for these bare-metal
targets? Is DMD even in this game?
GCC(GDC) naturally has more platforms supported, but LLVM(LDC) at
least has ARM too.
2. If not ARM Cortex, can any of the D compilers target Intel's
Quark processor?
ummm... is this x86 right? so what problem? (is this actually
launched in production? 0_0)
Finally, if D is not yet ready for these targets, but would
like to be, what work remains to be done to get it there.
Looking forward to your thoughtful answers.
as you can see D naturally fits for most system programming
tasks. community just need more people who can bring this to D!
so why no pick some ARM port and make it complete?
p.s. i think the only reason D doesn't have ARM and MIPS already
is because Walter don't know asm for this architectures :)
