On Saturday, 9 November 2013 at 04:46:14 UTC, Etienne wrote:
Many vendors would have their processors supported in D if we
had
a D to C compiler. I feel like it would be simpler than going
for
native code directly. Did this idea follow-through?
No, not yet I'm afraid. At least not for xdc.
Here's the lowdown:
The future of xdc will be determined by whether or not I can save
up enough money to reliably support myself between the time I
would leave my current job and the time I would be compensated by
means of crowdsourcing. In the middle there I would need to
create some kind of working demo, make a good pitch, talk to a
bunch of writers and programmer communities, etc etc, all while
burning precious savings. If, before any of that, I get
recruited by another company with a non-terrible (and possibly
/good/) codebase (like Sociomantic or Facebook), then we would be
able to consider the whole idea effectively cancelled before it
can start. As great for /me/ as it would be to write D code for
a job, I just don't see it being a boon to xdc: companies usually
hire folks to work on the company's stuff, not the employee's
stuff. But, if I end up sticking with my current job, then at
some point I may just go out on my own and make things happen.
Time will tell.
That said, if all you want is a C/C++ backend, then Kai's recent
post on this thread brings up a possibility that seems
unexplored, as of yet:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
Maybe that'll get you there in more certain terms.
