OSCON 2012 notes

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 21-07-2012 21:51, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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.

... and C# ;)

>
> 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.
>

GDC is pretty far along as far as ARM support goes; I intend to have 
another run through it one of these days to look at any remaining issues.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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