D as A Better C?

[Mike]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 22:21:32 UTC, ed wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 22:01:01 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>
> I think the transition to D in the embedded world would be 
> quicker if it were possible to obtain a minimal D language that 
> produces the smallest binaries possible.
>

How about a 56 byte hello world [1].  Small binaries are already 
possible with GDC (and maybe LDC too).  If you want structs and 
static classes, you only need a 20 line object.d file for GDC 
[2].  This is proving to be quite a suitable replacement for C in 
my current experiments.

Mike

[1] 
https://github.com/JinShil/D_Runtime_ARM_Cortex-M_study/wiki/1.1---Hello,-World!
[2] 
https://github.com/JinShil/D_Runtime_ARM_Cortex-M_study/blob/structs/source/object.d