On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 06:21:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 13:59:32 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 08:50:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
So, how to write a source-to-source compiler from CS to D…?
;-)
I think it would be more useful would be to go the other way
around for targeting Windows Phone. Or rather, it would be if
anyone actually used WP. (Going after Microsoft's also-ran
mobile OS isn't particularly compelling when our story for
targeting Android is still in such a dire state.)
Dire state? All druntime/phobos tests pass on Android/x86,
except for std.datetime:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_DMD_for_Android
OK, that's not ARM that everybody cares about, but that just
means combining an ARM backend from ldc or gdc and the existing
linux/ARM and Android support in druntime/phobos, then hacking
around the lack of native TLS on Android. gdc supposedly
supports emulated TLS, so all the pieces should be in place
there to do it. I've been recently looking into hacking the
packed TLS solution I used with dmd for Android/x86 into ldc
and llvm.
Dan Olson got pretty far with iOS support too, early this year:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
D has some support for mobile, albeit not fully polished.
We really should have had a toolchain compiling D into working
(release quality) Android/iOS executables about 3-5 years ago.
This would have allowed D to scoop up a HUGE share of deployment
in a market that was very new and welcoming of experimentation.
It seems like there have been a few people enthusiastically
working on this, but with little support from the broader
community. I really wish this were a higher development priority
and more actively encouraged a long time ago.
