Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-26 Thread karabuta via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 09:25:19 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 19:21:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: Well, if I understand right, the hardest part of the work (making sure things run OK on ARM) has substantially been done by you and others. Assuming

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 09:25:19 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 19:21:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: But can such a powerful phone handle Ubuntu Touch? ;) The preliminary reviews for the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition, which you're presumably referencing, are

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-26 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 19:21:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: But can such a powerful phone handle Ubuntu Touch? ;) The preliminary reviews for the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition, which you're presumably referencing, are not good, even though the hardware is spec-ed out, because the Ubuntu software

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-26 Thread Stefan Hertenberger via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 19:21:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: Well, it took us a long time to get on the currently most popular OS platforms, iOS and Android, and we still have no apps on there, so I don't think this tiny Ubuntu niche will get much dev effort. But if you or someone else

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:27:45 UTC, karabuta wrote: Maybe you might only be thinking about Android or iOS, but Ubuntu Touch (a single Ubuntu OS meant to run across multiple devices from PC to Phones) is really gaining traction. The good news is that QML is officially the way to

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-25 Thread Zardoz via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 18:05:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:27:45 UTC, karabuta wrote: SIDE NOTE: Ubuntu just lunched a phone with 4GB ram running on a x64 Octacore Arm processors in addition to a table with similar high spec, which can all pretty

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-25 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:27:45 UTC, karabuta wrote: SIDE NOTE: Ubuntu just lunched a phone with 4GB ram running on a x64 Octacore Arm processors in addition to a table with similar high spec, which can all pretty much handle D(even with GC) IMO. You can run D with GC with 16 MB -

D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-25 Thread karabuta via Digitalmars-d
Maybe you might only be thinking about Android or iOS, but Ubuntu Touch (a single Ubuntu OS meant to run across multiple devices from PC to Phones) is really gaining traction. The good news is that QML is officially the way to build apps and D already has dqml(https://github.com/filcuc/dqml).