D for microservices

[yawniek]

On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 10:03:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I've updated ldc master to use Yuxuan's druntime port, which 
> means the upcoming ldc 1.8 release will likely be a viable 
> Alpine/Musl cross-compiler out of the box, provided you give it 
> a C/Musl cross-compiler/linker to work with, by using the 
> bundled ldc-build-runtime tool:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_runtime_libraries
>
> Cross-compiling has not been tested however: do people normally 
> cross-compile to Alpine containers or build their software in 
> Alpine itself?  If the latter, building ldc from master on 
> Alpine/x64 3.7.0 passes all of the druntime/phobos stdlib unit 
> tests but one, so you're good to go there, as long as you don't 
> need a pre-built binary. Maybe we'll put one out for ldc with 
> the upcoming 1.8 release.

great stuff, thank you! this will be very useful!

Q: what would be needed to build a single binary (a la golang) 
that works in a FROM SCRATCH docker container?