D for embedded system

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Jan 8 11:08:27 PST 2013


On 2013-01-08 17:52, Freddie Chopin wrote:

> Yes, we're talking about real bare-metal here (; I think D with it's
> safety fits really nicely in the embedded niche... I think that if D
> could be used on a system with 128kB of flash and 8kB of RAM that would
> be great. If it would require the chip to have more RAM it wouldn't be
> so great, but a 16kB or 32kB is still quite OK... This would probably
> require D's lib (phobos) to NOT depend on garbage collector (or maybe
> use it only in some high-level stuff that would be to big for such
> embedded system anyway).

This guy has created a GC free version of druntime and Phobos:

http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=20

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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