If I had my way

[Manu]

On 12 December 2011 09:33, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
> > On 12/11/2011 10:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> > > In my experience programming embedded systems in highly constrained
> environments
> > > usually means assembly or at most a C compiler using lots
> > > of compiler specific extensions for the target environment.
> > >
> > > I fail to see how D without GC could be a better tool in such
> enviroments.
> >
> > For a system with a tiny amount of memory, D probably is the wrong tool.
> My
> > suggestion would be:
> >
> > 0..64K assembler
> > 64K..1M C
> > 1M+ D
> >
> > The larger your program is, the more D starts to pull ahead.
>
> Exactly, and with 1M+ we are already getting into the processor's realm
> which have C# and Java tolchains with AOT compilation and GC with real time
> extensions available. So why have D without GC for such environments?
>

I wrote a massive email, respond to that...
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