Mid-term vision review

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On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 16:41:14 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 4/3/15 3:10 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> It would be great to have dmd on embedded platforms.
>>
>> I agree. We just don't have the champion for that yet. -- 
>> Andrei
>
> I might obviously be biased, but to be honest I don't see much 
> value in starting to port a largely obsolete backend to a whole 
> new processor architecture.
>
> Sure, it might be a fun exercise for somebody interested in 
> learning about code generation. But in terms of pushing D 
> forward, I think the much better option is to encourage people 
> to contribute to GDC or LDC instead, where backends for 
> virtually all important embedded platforms already exist.
>
>  — David

I think I might agree to that. What matters more is having light 
weight runtimes for embedded systems. There's no single good 
answer, so it will have to be down to switching features on and 
off. (GC for sure, exceptions, type info, etc.)