On 01/18/2010 11:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
Embedded x86 is an oxymoron. Yes, I know, it exists (and btw, 8
years ago they were still selling 486s as "embedded" processors) but
mostly it doesn't need any special support (except possibly on the
binary size front and even there 80k is nothing to the XXX megabytes
used by the off-the-shelf OS+GUI+Web browser). Face it, there are
two kinds of embedded developers:
- Those who want performance at very low power usage, who use ARM
and C with a specialized OS. Those won't use D, period. Most of the
time, they won't even use malloc or most of the C standard library
(not saying they're right here, but I doubt you will change them);
I've looked at some embedded ARM evaluation boards that have Linux on
them. Don't know much else about them. What about things like phones,
game machines?
This should be possible. I have a N900 which runs C, C++ and even Python
apps. Nokia is going Qt (ergo C++) all the way for mobile (symbian and
Maemo). D fits in very well.
These are not exactly embedded devices, but performance still matters
and the platform is open enough to try to sneak in. Same goes for
android, I believe they lifted the Java only restriction so it may be
possible. If I ever have to time I'll attempt to get GDC or LDC running
on the N900.
