H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/1/15 1:38 AM, Timo Sintonen wrote:
> The one of major issues is: how to access hardware. We need a language
> feature to access hardware registers.

What features do Rust and Nim provide for such?

> - NoSystem should be a supported platform and not a build failure. The
> build system should leave out files and features that are not available.

I really like this notion that not defining a system (or defining a 
special one) builds a minimal freestanding implementation.


Andrei