On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:37:26 -0400, Denis Koroskin <2kor...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:23:49 +0400, Olivier Pisano
<olivier.pis...@laposte.net> wrote:
Le 25/10/2010 09:27, Walter Bright a écrit :
Russel Winder wrote:
. . . but they may have been asked before and I just missed them in
trawling around.
Is the intention that D should be the language of choice for
implementing applications on MeeGo? If not maybe it should?
I guess the same question goes for iOS -- although Object-C and C++
are
the assumed languages of development, nothing in the various Apple
"app
stores" rules would discriminate against D -- unlike what they do
regarding Python, Flash and Java!
Yes - we just need an ARM version of the compiler!
I am not sure the D GC wouldn't be a problem for Apple, as they did
remove the Objective-C GC on iOS.
IIRC they only did that for performance reasons. Apple now allows
building iOS application with any tool, including Flash (that does
feature a GC as part of the VM but that's hardly relevant) so there
shouldn't be any problem with D.
My understanding (and I haven't read the rules directly, just news
articles about them) is that they no longer mind if you use a tool to
*convert* something written for e.g. flash to objective-C code. But I
think they still require you to build your app with their compiler.
If that's not the case, and you have to use iOS' GC, I think D's runtime
can easily be rewritten to use it. It's built to allow swappable GC
implementations.
-Steve
