On Saturday, 26 July 2014 at 14:50:43 UTC, Mike wrote:
I'm thinking of actually creating a couple of different
runtimes.
The one I'm researching right now is intended to be very
C-like, i.e. no classes, exceptions, garbage collector, runtime
type info, threads, TLS, etc... Just the most basic parts of D
that one would need to build a single-threaded kernel. Dynamic
memory allocation may not even be needed.
Such a runtime would certainly be better than C because there
would still be CTFE, mixins, templates, etc... Very cool! So
far, my experiments seem to indicate that such a runtime would
require very little code; potentially less than a few thousand
lines (famous last words).
I find that TypeInfo is just not worth it. You get too much
without it already and resulting runtime is very small.
