On 7/15/2014 2:17 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Well as long as those priorities are clearly communicated. If you tell me 'we don't care about embedded programming' then I'll shut up and move back to C.
Rest assured we definitely do care about embedded systems programming.
But 'D is a systems programming language for low level tasks' and 'we don't want to introduce a type qualifier for low level programming, but @nogc is just fine' don't go together. This leaves all contributors and devs hoping to see D on embedded systems in uncertainty.
It isn't about whether we want to introduce a type qualifier for low level programming or not. It is about what is the best solution for MMIO for low level programming.
Note that D already supports inp() and outp() as compiler intrinsics, adding peek() and poke() will complement them nicely:
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_bitop.html#.inp
