D for Android beta

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 19:31:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> The beta release of ldc 1.3, the llvm-based D compiler, is now 
> out:
>
> https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases
>
> It is accompanied by a non-trivial sample app from the Android 
> NDK, ported from C++ to about 1.2 klocs of D: the classic Utah 
> Teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), updated 
> with mobile touch controls.  This app also demonstrates calling 
> Java functions from your D code through JNI, though most of it 
> is written in D.
>
> There are two builds of ldc, a cross-compiler that you can use 
> from a linux/x64 shell to compile to Android/ARM, and a native 
> compiler that you can run on your Android device itself.  As I 
> pointed out last year, not only is ldc a large mixed D/C++ 
> codebase that just worked on ARM, but it is possible to build 
> arbitrarily large Android apps on your Android device itself, a 
> first for any mobile platform:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ovkhtsdzlfzqrqneolyv@forum.dlang.org
>
> This is the way the next generation of coders will get into 
> coding, by tinkering with their Android devices like we did 
> with Macs and PCs decades ago, and D is one the few languages 
> that is already there.
>
> I will write up instructions on how to write an Android app in 
> D _on_ your Android device by using ldc and the Termux app, and 
> get ldc into the Termux packages, a package repository for 
> Android:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en

Congratulations, Joakim!
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6eqv46/write_mixed_dc_android_apps_even_build_them/
and news.ycombinator.com

Looking forward to termux.