On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 18:11:38 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
What can be done to capture the attention of young people in
the developing world?
Probably the most effective thing would be if it were possible
to edit, compile, and run D programs on a cheap Android ARM
phone.
Is this within the bounds of possibility?
There are millions of unemployed, bored, restless, and
ambitious young men out there, who have saved their all to buy
a cheap smartphone.
Any other ideas?
Steve
Don't forget the young women :)
But yes, good ARM and android support would be awesome, although
native code isn't exactly something that's heavily encouraged on
android unfortunately.
As an aside: Africa is heavily dominated by smartphones, due to
the relative ease of building a mobile infrastructure v.s. a
landline based model, as well as good resilience to
poor/unreliable power supply.
