On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 06:48:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I just stumbled across this article from a year ago, which says
the PS4 toolchain is based on llvm/clang:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU1MTY
I know some here were excited about the possibility of getting
D on the new consoles since they were switching to x86, but is
that really possible? I googled other alternative compiled
languages combined with playstation 4 and found... nothing.
I don't know if Sony/Microsoft put in legal roadblocks to using
anything other than the officially supported languages for game
development on their consoles. If not, this could be a good
way to differentiate D, especially given the current nogc focus.
Perhaps Manu or one of the the other game developers can
comment on the feasibility of getting D on the major consoles.
If you want to know more about it,check the LLVM talks:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/
Many of them have talks from either Sony or CodePlay (also does
PS compilers).
