On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:27:45 UTC, karabuta wrote:
Maybe you might only be thinking about Android or iOS, but
Ubuntu Touch (a single Ubuntu OS meant to run across multiple
devices from PC to Phones) is really gaining traction. The good
news is that QML is officially the way to build apps and D
already has dqml(https://github.com/filcuc/dqml).
Back-end(optional) is also C++ with API bindings in Go and
JavaScript. D currently has good support for C++.
SIDE NOTE: Ubuntu just lunched a phone with 4GB ram running on
a x64 Octacore Arm processors in addition to a table with
similar high spec, which can all pretty much handle D(even with
GC) IMO. All subsequent devices will be high spec since the OS
will run desktop apps on phone and even IoT.
But can such a powerful phone handle Ubuntu Touch? ;) The
preliminary reviews for the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition, which
you're presumably referencing, are not good, even though the
hardware is spec-ed out, because the Ubuntu software is
supposedly slow and laggy. I was hopeful for the previous Ubuntu
on Android effort years ago, but it never went anywhere. I bet
this one won't either.
So, do you not think Ubuntu ecosystem makes a good and easy to
enter market? Unfortunately, I don't have the fuel and engine
power to make API bindings, so anyone willing to help here?
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/features
http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/qml/
Well, it took us a long time to get on the currently most popular
OS platforms, iOS and Android, and we still have no apps on
there, so I don't think this tiny Ubuntu niche will get much dev
effort. But if you or someone else believes in and wants to
develop for it, more power to you.
