On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 04:05:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/18/15 2:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
I think we are good as we are right now. There is an "others"
link on
the download page, so people interested in support for less
common or
less supported platforms can find said information on the wiki.
Mobile support is huge, and one of the first things people ask
about D. If ldc supports mobile platforms, that tidbit should
be mentioned FRONT AND CENTER.
Again: I didn't know it! People ask me about mobile support all
the time and I'm telling them "not yet".
And we're not there yet.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand, you'll get
nowhere on mobile with any current official LDC releases. Saying
that LDC supports iOS/Android out of the box on dlang.org would
be false advertising at this point.
I'm not sure what expectations people have when they hear
"language X supports iOS/Android", but at least as someone who
hasn't done a lot of mobile development, I'd expect that the
official compiler can emit code I can call from my app, and get
it all working in minutes. This would include tutorials of how
would I compile/link this D code and make it talk to my
Java/Obj-C/Swift UI code. Again, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about this as anyone, but at
the same time I don't want people mocking us for claiming support
when what we have is a proof-of-concept provided by a third-party
fork.
