On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 16:41:14 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/3/15 3:10 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
It would be great to have dmd on embedded platforms.
I agree. We just don't have the champion for that yet. --
Andrei
I might obviously be biased, but to be honest I don't see much
value in starting to port a largely obsolete backend to a whole
new processor architecture.
Sure, it might be a fun exercise for somebody interested in
learning about code generation. But in terms of pushing D
forward, I think the much better option is to encourage people
to contribute to GDC or LDC instead, where backends for
virtually all important embedded platforms already exist.
— David
The reliance on GDC/LDC to produce production-level binaries(i.e,
optimized) and the actual people working on them really is
worrisome. If Iain or Kai decided one day to leave D, it would be
a very big blow I think.
