OSCON 2012 notes

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:47:06 -0400
Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.ca> wrote:
> 
> And also, more and more it'd require ARM support to be competitive in 
> the GUI area.
> 

Yes. But there's an even bigger reason for ARM: Mobile devices, like
iOS and Android. I'm not personally a fan of them, but nonetheless those
things are HUGE (no pun intended). And yet the ONLY real language
choices there are C++, Java and Objective-C (and Lua if you count
"Son-of-Flash", ie Corona - which I don't count). And half of THOSE are
out of the question if you want cross platform, which any sane developer
should. So PERFECT fertile ground for D.

I know I keep harping on that, but it's a big issue for me since I'm
deep into that stuff now and goddamn do I wish I could be doing
it in D, but D's support on those devices (or just outputting C/C++)
unfortunately just isn't mature enough ATM.