On 11-05-2012 19:39, Paulo Pinto wrote:
The author of a D based PSP emulator just rewrote
the emulator in C#, after being disappointed with D.
https://github.com/soywiz/cspspemu
The reasons are listed here,
https://github.com/soywiz/cspspemu#created-after-4-tries
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Paulo
Complicated language structure? Long compilation times?
wat.
The language may be complicated if all you've ever done is C# or Java,
but then you've barely been exposed to interesting language design at
all IMHO. I can agree on it being harder to refactor things in D than in
other languages, but this completely depends on how much CTFE/CT
reflection magic you're using.
Now, this being said, .NET is interesting for an emulator exactly
because he can just throw CIL at the runtime and it will emit native
code for him at runtime. This makes portability *extremely* easy,
because the CIL he emits will run anywhere Mono and MS.NET can run.
Doing a similar thing with LLVM is certainly possible, but much more
tedious.
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- Alex
