Zimbu

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:04:10PM +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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.
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Really? Example? I thought *anything* can be reduced to C, given enough
implementational abstractions.


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