On 21-07-2012 21:51, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:47:06 -0400
Michel Fortin <michel.for...@michelf.ca> wrote:
And also, more and more it'd require ARM support to be competitive in
the GUI area.
Yes. But there's an even bigger reason for ARM: Mobile devices, like
iOS and Android. I'm not personally a fan of them, but nonetheless those
things are HUGE (no pun intended). And yet the ONLY real language
choices there are C++, Java and Objective-C (and Lua if you count
"Son-of-Flash", ie Corona - which I don't count). And half of THOSE are
out of the question if you want cross platform, which any sane developer
should. So PERFECT fertile ground for D.
... and C# ;)
I know I keep harping on that, but it's a big issue for me since I'm
deep into that stuff now and goddamn do I wish I could be doing
it in D, but D's support on those devices (or just outputting C/C++)
unfortunately just isn't mature enough ATM.
GDC is pretty far along as far as ARM support goes; I intend to have
another run through it one of these days to look at any remaining issues.
--
Alex Rønne Petersen
a...@lycus.org
http://lycus.org
