H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Timo Sintonen via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 15:28:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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?
>
> Andrei

I was not the one who compared the languages and I have never 
used rust or nim.  I just pointed out that d had no way to access 
registers properly. DMD and GDC optimize very heavily and may 
cache, reorder and remove any access they think is not needed.
Other languages may not have such optimizations and registers can 
be accessed just with normal memory oprations.