What are we going to do about mobile?

[Ryion via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 10:47:07 UTC, James W Hofmann 
wrote:
> I happened across this old thread in a search for "mobile app 
> dlang". I got a Chromebook recently and it represents a 
> substantial phase shift in devices for me:

Arm has indeed become a more compelling platform, especially with 
all the SBC that exist today. Nothing more fun as compiling code 
on a Pi3 and seeing that little monster working like the big boys 
( of course slower ).

Unfortunately, not everything works great. Like LDC being version 
0.14.0 ( 2014! ) on the Pi3 Debian images. And well, 
"_Unwind_RaiseException failed with reason code: 2128056904", on 
a simply compile. Not exactly hopeful.

C works great. C++ same. GoLang version 1.3.3 and later perfect. 
FreePascal totally useless with "An unhandled exception occurred 
at $00084234". Its interesting to see what languages work and 
those that bum out with default debian installations.

So its a mixed bag on ARM development. But people underestimate 
how fast the ARM platform is evolving regarding speed. The Pi3 
has 4 Armv8 A53 cores but you got now systems like Helion X20 
with 2 * A72, 4 * A53 and another 4 * A35... Getting to being 
only 1/4 then a full blown Intel 7600. All that for a 15W max 
package. And this year we are getting 10nm X30 with more updated 
cores. Good times...

The PC evolution market in regards to CPU technology has been 
frankly very dead for the last few years. Small gains each 
generation but nothing impressive. The only impressing thing has 
been the AMD Ryzon's that finally pushed 8 cores into consumer 
hands for a cheap price ( and the thread ripper for 16 for a 
"reasonable" price, unlike Intel there prices for ages ).