Stable D version?

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Apr 29 05:43:18 PDT 2013


On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 11:24:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 11:15:20 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Quoting myself
>>
>> "Or course this is a very limited subset of what embedded is 
>> all
>> about, but I think D could also be usable in such types of 
>> boards."
>
> Okay, pardon me, may be I have not highlighted my point clear 
> enough: there is no real market for D in that limited subset 
> because it has to compete with Java, C# or any modern language 
> based on their virtual machines. And, similar to desktop usage, 
> lot of selling points for D are lost then, because, well, why 
> bother?
>
> Contrary to this, any language who can make it into real 
> embedded domain will be almost uncontested, because this 
> industry is still stuck with 40-year obsolete tools. But that 
> is not something that may happen on its own.

Fair enough, I agree with you there.


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