Compile to C?

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 23/01/2017 3:20 PM, Nestor wrote:
> On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 01:17:20 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 01:12:21 UTC, Nestor wrote:
>>> You mean phobos, or system libraries?
>>
>> Phobos but mostly the druntime that interfaces with the system.
>
> I see, I was mostly thinking in Android and/or other platforms, but it
> does seem like heavy work, though curiously this approach seems to be
> working for Nim (at least so far), is it that the language is better
> suited for that, or simply that more work has been put into it? (not
> bashing D, honest curiosity)

Nim probably doesn't care too much about the platform its running on like C.

We support things like TLS and shared libraries with GC, that all 
requires druntime and having system support to some extent.