On 02/10/2012 01:02 PM, Tim Krimm wrote:
We have C and C++
How about D- and D?
D- would be the have a similar use as today's C compilers.
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Why create this language?
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Well I would love to have a D compiler that supports microcontrollers.
The ones that have say 32 K of RAM and 64K of FLASH.
A language that is targeted for embedded and/or low resource environments.
It would be nice to have a modern language for low resource environments.
A potential way to implement this language is to use the DMD frontend,
then flag the unsupported features of D,
Next create a backend, like "C front" that outputs C code instead of
assembler.
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What do I envision with D-,
D-- or Dm or what ever you want to call it.
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This language would basically be D without the garbage collection.
For example there would be structures but no classes.
There would be regular arrays but no dynamic arrays.
Code that is mostly equivalent to C, but you would still have structures
with functions and overloading support,
and other features like templates etc.
I think you get the idea.
What are your thoughts?
I would love this as well. I *think* you wouldn't have to recreate the
language, just recreate the runtime. You can currently use D and can
completely avoid the use of the GC by just using static functions. From
what I understand, dynamic arrays are also controlled and provided
through the runtime. You can also export C symbols if you wanted to.
