On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 12:21:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
I can't find code Adam used to provide minimal d runtime stubs to compile C-like programs but he was forced to use in-line assembly there in few cases. Can't remember details, sorry.
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/minimal.zip (not sure if it still compiles on new dmd, I haven't played with it for months and druntime is a moving target)
The main inline asm usage was to make system calls on Linux without libc or to poke the hardware on bare metal; there isn't a lot of it that is strictly necessary.
On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 11:16:07 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
But it leaves you with a very crippled language that does not even help you in sticking with that crippled subset. At this point you really start asking yourself - what does this give me over raw C to motivate the transition? So far I don't see anything convincing.
There's still some nice benefits, you can use the compile time stuff of D, exceptions, classes, custom array types; a lot of the language actually works if you spend the time on it. Though i never did anything serious with it, I stopped at the proof of concept phase.
