64bit phobos on Windows?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1803.1298161166.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 2/20/11, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>> Eveything's probably out-of-date enough to useless by now, but FWIW I 
>> wrote
>> a little bit about it here:
>>
>> http://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/d-on-gba-nds-progress-thanks-to-oopman
>>
>
> Okay, I've collected a few links to get me started. Thanks for your
> link as well.
>
> Btw, D on a Game Boy? That is way too cool!

Heh, well, GBA at a minimum, which is ARM7. So it's not as if it's D->Z80 or 
anything like that, and with the GB line's switch from Z80 to ARM7, typical 
GB development switched from Asm to C/C++, so D isn't too big of a stretch. 
And I never did get things like D's structs or classes working, or any of 
the D runtime, or phobos or tango for that matter. Didn't even attempt 
garbage collection (I would more likely have just ripped out the GC. Despite 
its processing power, the GBA is still fairly low on memory. And so is the 
DS for that matter.)

But yea, my game-development days were the primary reason I got interested 
in D in the first place. Everything in the game world was C/C++ (and still 
is, unless you count web-games, MS's XNA and in-engine scripting - none of 
which I count), and by the early 2000's I had come to see C/C++ as an 
irritating anachronism (Header files? In 200X? Really?). But unlike all the 
other popular languages at the time (remember when VC's were allegedly "the 
undeniable future, period"?), D was the *only* modern language that actually 
had the *potential* to be used on such platforms.