On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 05:25:17 UTC, Mike wrote:
I think, without a few fundamental changes to the language and the runtime, bare-metal programming in D will always be playing second fiddle to C, and that significantly diminishes its appeal.
What changes did you have in mind? When I played with it, it was mostly using the C-like subset, but I still think it was worth it because bits like operator overloading and slicing are really convenient.
What I've wanted before is better ability to remove dependency on stuff like moduleinfo. Though that isn't a big deal on something like x86 where an extra 30 KB is fine, I think it would be really important on something like a arduino. (Which I intend to play with - finally have one here - but haven't gotten around to yet.)
