On 04/28/2012 11:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Chad J"<chadjoan@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message
news:jnhv5n$qe3$1...@digitalmars.com...
I've googled for it a bit and searched over newsgroup messages but I can't
find the post that mentioned this. I think it might have been amidst the
discussion of the javascript backend.
I want to download it and try it out.
MicroD: https://github.com/yebblies/dmd/tree/microd
D->JS thread mentioning it in a few places:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/yfmgvgprfpiquakiy...@forum.dlang.org?page=1
Hey, thanks!
Bummer, no commits in the last 3 months or so.
At any rate, I almost wonder if I can compile the output C code on the
OpenVMS system at work. I have a project in C I work on from time to
time, but it's an uncomfortable (to say the least) environment to work
with. There is stuff like this:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/How-do-I-get-C-program-tracebacks-to-print-SOURCE-line-numbers/td-p/5570015
If I had DMD with C-backend at my disposal, then maybe I could
instrument it with a calling convention that gives me exception handling
and proper debug information. Then I'd also get arrays and various
other really nice D features, even with just the basics. I wouldn't
bother getting the GC to work, but it'd make me consider implementing
some kind of reference counting. Even without ref counting I'd have way
more at that point than what I have currently with straight C code.
And if I /could/ get reference counting, and if the backend were solid
enough, then the thing could probably be used for writing games. I'd
have the ability to output extremely portable C code to pretty much any
target except the web, and there's the JS backend for that. Very enticing!
I wonder what it would take to get this sort of thing merged into mainline.
