Zimbu

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:14:09 +0200
Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:

> On 14/09/13 00:51, Justin Whear wrote:
> > Just ran across this: http://www.zimbu.org/
> > A language by Bram Moolenaar (original author and maintainer of
> > vim). The "Why Zimbu?" section on the right side of the homepage has
> > comparisons to other languages.  D is the last comparison,
> > suggesting that it meets all the other qualifications but fails on
> > "It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is
> > out."
> 
> Theoretically, shouldn't GDC be able to support just about any
> architecture for which GCC has a backend?  The runtime and Phobos
> need porting, but the core language itself should be usable, no?

And doesn't LLVM have a way to compile D *to* C?