Can D get on XBone and PS4?

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 18 00:18:34 PST 2015


On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 06:48:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I just stumbled across this article from a year ago, which says 
> the PS4 toolchain is based on llvm/clang:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU1MTY
>
> I know some here were excited about the possibility of getting 
> D on the new consoles since they were switching to x86, but is 
> that really possible?  I googled other alternative compiled 
> languages combined with playstation 4 and found... nothing.
>
> I don't know if Sony/Microsoft put in legal roadblocks to using 
> anything other than the officially supported languages for game 
> development on their consoles.  If not, this could be a good 
> way to differentiate D, especially given the current nogc focus.
>
> Perhaps Manu or one of the the other game developers can 
> comment on the feasibility of getting D on the major consoles.

If you want to know more about it,check the LLVM talks:

http://llvm.org/devmtg/

Many of them have talks from either Sony or CodePlay (also does
PS compilers).


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