Zimbu

[Iain Buclaw]

On 14 September 2013 19:47, Nick Sabalausky
<SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

If it did, there would be quite a few bits missing as much of D can
not be easily represented in C.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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