From the D Blog: Driving with D
rikki cattermole
rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Fri Jun 4 15:48:50 UTC 2021
On 04/06/2021 8:50 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 11:57:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Dylan Graham writes about his experience using D in a microcontroller
>> project and why he chose it. Does anyone know of any similar projects
>> using D? I don't. This may well be the first time it's been employed
>> in this specific manner.
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2021/06/01/driving-with-d/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nps6k5/driving_with_dlang/
>
> FWIW, I tried D in a simple project using an atmega32a. It almost worked
> (thanks to Webfreak and LDC people), but there were a couple of issues:
>
> 1. No support for ISRs. I had to implement thunks in C calling D.
> 2. No slices, because 'length' is typed as 32-bit. Worked around by
> accessing the array's elements via .ptr.
> 3. No foreach (as a consequence of 2, I guess)
Does this form of foreach work?
foreach(i; 0 .. 10)
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