On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:48:37PM +0200, Stephen wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm considering learning D as a general purpose language. > But for that matter I would like to know how Poratble D is. > As far as I know only x86 and x86_64 are supported. > Can you tell me otherwise? What about SPARC and PowerPC for example? > If they are not supported yet, what do you think how long it will > take until theye are?
Although dmd currently only supports x86 and x86_64, gdc and ldc both support a great variety of other architectures (basically all the architectures that gcc/llvm support). I'm not sure if druntime has been ported to all the available target platforms, though, so you might run into some difficulty there. > Will D ever be usable for embeddet systems? [...] That's the plan. T -- Today's society is one of specialization: as you grow, you learn more and more about less and less. Eventually, you know everything about nothing.
