Quick question about target patforms . . .

[Olivier Pisano]

Le 25/10/2010 11:37, Denis Koroskin a écrit :
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:23:49 +0400, Olivier Pisano
> <olivier.pisano at laposte.net> wrote:
>
>> Le 25/10/2010 09:27, Walter Bright a écrit :
>>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>>> . . . but they may have been asked before and I just missed them in
>>>> trawling around.
>>>>
>>>> Is the intention that D should be the language of choice for
>>>> implementing applications on MeeGo? If not maybe it should?
>>>>
>>>> I guess the same question goes for iOS -- although Object-C and C++ are
>>>> the assumed languages of development, nothing in the various Apple "app
>>>> stores" rules would discriminate against D -- unlike what they do
>>>> regarding Python, Flash and Java!
>>>
>>> Yes - we just need an ARM version of the compiler!
>>
>> I am not sure the D GC wouldn't be a problem for Apple, as they did
>> remove the Objective-C GC on iOS.
>
> IIRC they only did that for performance reasons. Apple now allows
> building iOS application with any tool, including Flash (that does
> feature a GC as part of the VM but that's hardly relevant) so there
> shouldn't be any problem with D.

I wasn't aware they did change their views on what can be used to build 
iOS applications. There should be no problem then.