On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 17:49:43 UTC, Johannes Pfau
wrote:
Am Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:18:48 -0500
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]>:
On 12/20/16 6:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello, a few engineers at Red Hat are taking a look at using
> the D language on the desktop and have reached out to us.
> They have created a list of issues. We are on the top-level
> ones, and of course would appreciate any community help as
> well.
>
> https://gist.github.com/ximion/77dda83a9926f892c9a4fa0074d6bf2b
An engineer from Debian wrote down what's needed on the
distribution side to give a green light to the D language:
https://gist.github.com/ximion/fe6264481319dd94c8308b1ea4e8207a
From a compiler dev point of view I think one of the most
important issues is the stable ABI. Many of the compiler
specific problems could be solved easily if we could mix code
from different compilers.
Rust is considering to install packages as source code.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-policy-draft/4453
Not an ideal solution. Having a stable ABI would be better. A
pragmatic idea, though.
