On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:55:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:38:29 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Fantastic!
Could you please send a PR to upgrade
http://dlang.org/download.html so it lists the iOS and (later)
Android downloads? Even I didn't know ldc has an iOS download!
-- Andrei
Will do. Support for both platforms is at the alpha stage, but
doesn't hurt to get more hands on them, and the fact that
pretty much all of the druntime and phobos tests pass mean
they're in reasonably good shape.
I wish the extent of platform support for GDC and LDC was
clearer. I decided not to list any platforms on D's download page
unless support for those platforms was rock-solid and is expected
to work.
At least at that time, iOS and Android support, as I understood
it, was in the "well, if you download this thing some guy
uploaded to his personal website and patch that file and don't do
this thing which doesn't work yet, you might get a "hello world"
that runs from the terminal if you SSH in" ballpark. I'm not sure
we should be advertising support for any platform at that level.
Personally, I feel that if a platform/architecture is listed on a
language's download page, I should be able to download the
compiler and build a fully-working application within a few
minutes, and as I understand we are nowhere close to that yet. I
don't feel particularly strong about this, but if we do decide to
lower the bar, then we should reconsider all the other platforms
that have been left out (such as the long list of GDC
architectures which I understood Iain to say that, well, since
the build succeeds and Debian successfully packages it, then it
has to work. I might be wrong, though, which is my point exactly
- there is really insufficient information about what exactly one
can expect to work on each platform/architecture (and their
combinations).
