Re: version=D_16

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 09:38:13 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 23:01:50 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 22:39:22 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
The problem Walter pointed to is that due to integer
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. For me it hasn't 
proved a problem, but I could see it being if you do a lot of 
arithmetic with 16-bit integers.

I just want to point out, that my impression is that the maker 
scene
using all this 16 bit Arm Arduino and what ever micro 
controllers,
would be happy to have D as an alternative for coding in C.
So BetterC and D_16 might attract a way bigger community than 
many
other might think. Even if this reduced language might need to 
be named D-- :-).
I would like to have a D that throw away all that integer 
promotion garbage anyway. We have CommonType!(), which is all we 
need and any promotion to a larger type than the common type of 
two operands does us no good in any place I can think of.