D as A Better C?

[Marco Leise]

Am Wed, 12 Feb 2014 03:50:58 +0000
schrieb "Mike" <none at none.com>:

> 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

That's an awesome proof of concept.

-- 
Marco