d bare bones

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 06/09/13 15:11, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> It has always been the case that if you want to enter kernel-space
> with D, you have to drop phobos and implement a more low level
> druntime.  For instance, the GC that comes with D is wholly infeasible
> for use inside a kernel .

To what extent can that situation be improved with respect to Phobos?  The ideal 
would be to make it non-GC-reliant and agnostic with respect to how the runtime 
manages memory.

More generally, this makes a case for something like a well defined 
"dmicroruntime" which can be used as a general solution for embedded and 
low-level programming.