On 03/03/16 9:21 AM, Marco wrote:
Hi, I am Marco, a CS student at UCL. This is both a presentation post
and also post where I ask some suggestions about an idea for a GSOC
project.
I am a first year student and I do now that I may be too inexperienced
for such difficult projects, but my willingness to learn is big. I am
very fascinated by the world of compilers. Due to this fact I would
really appreciate to be selected this summer and to work on a project
for the D Lang.
My main idea is to port the D Lang to the arduino environment. I do know
that in past there has been a proposed project for GSOC very similar to
this idea, but I can't find any actual implementation of this idea on
the Internet.
Would the task be too difficult? Or with constant hard work would be
doable?
Thank you in advance.
(In the case that I will not be selected in the GSOC programme, I will
probably continue to be an active member of the development of the D
Lang, due to my real interest for it. So this post is my first step in
this community)
Half a year ago Jens Bauer was offering Cortex-M's for free for anyone
who wanted one. They would probably be better then Arduino for targeting.
Here is one I'm wanting to get:
http://www.dx.com/p/cortex-m3-stm32f103c8t6-stm32-development-board-w-swd-socket-st-link-v2-programmer-emulator-395848#.VterNJx97IU
Fairly cheap and yes you can use STM32's with Arduino.
You will need to basically rebuild druntime from scratch and use either
ldc or gdc. Unless of course you want to add an ARM target to dmd which
would be very appreciated (but incredibly a lot harder).
