What is the current state of D for android development?

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Fri Mar 29 00:20:45 PDT 2013


On Friday, 29 March 2013 at 07:02:24 UTC, BLM768 wrote:
> On Friday, 29 March 2013 at 06:35:10 UTC, js.mdnq wrote:
>>
>> I guess that means none... :/
>
> Unfortunately, there hasn't been a lot of focus on ARM 
> platforms; people are too busy improving the language and tools 
> to work on standard PC hardware. The DMD compiler definitely 
> won't work for Android development, but I'm pretty sure that 
> GDC can be compiled for ARM output, and I think LDC has that 
> capability as well. You'd probably need to write your own 
> linkscripts, and the runtime would definitely have to be 
> modified.

Being able to codegen is easy. But the runtime needs to follow, 
and that another issue altogether.


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