On Saturday, 9 November 2013 at 21:45:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 11/9/13 9:14 AM, nazriel wrote:
On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 01:21:44 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
I'd like to present my vision for a new D compiler. I call
it xdc, a
loose abbreviation for "Cross D Compiler" (if confused, see
...
Thank you for reading.
I think C backend is a good idea.
I think C is not a good back-end language. Other backend
generators usually have a white paper explaining why...
http://www.cminusminus.org/
Andrei
What would you suggest as an alternative for targeting disparate
hardware like microcontrollers (ALL of them), newly released game
consoles, and legacy platforms that could use D for migration
tools (like OpenVMS on IA64)?
Oh, and I want instantaneous release times. I need to be able to
stick the compiler on a machine it has NEVER seen and say, "Use
POSIX libraries to fulfill Phobos' deps. Use reference counting.
DO WORK!". Or maybe I would say, "Ditch Phobos, we in da
sticks. Use reference counting. GOGOGO!" And I want to be
running my D program 5 minutes later.
Let me initially dismiss these:
LLVM: not /everywhere/ yet, and missing on many of the targets I
mentioned.
C--: also not everywhere; this is the first I've heard of it.
Java/Javascript/.NET: Actually also good backends, but a
different ecosystems.
Thus, I suggest that C is an AWESOME backend (with C++ for
exceptions, but ONLY if it's available). Destroy :)
