Embedded Linux really needs Dlang for the IOT market

dangbinghoo dbh625 at 126.com
Fri Mar 9 03:09:16 UTC 2018


hi all,

I think the D community should make more effort to make Dlang 
more easier to use on embedded Linux(mostly are arm and mips, 
powerpc).

currently, LDC seems to be more complete, but we can only see a 
hundred words on the wiki about the cross-compiling for arm.

I'm working in a company now for IOT market. We have a lot of 
things like embedded linux systems: has a basic linux kernel, 
uclibc/eglibc system, built using buildroot or yocto.

for such a device, we need to write lost of code for dealing 
networking, web interface, database storage and sometimes data 
algorithm.

And, For most of the devices on the market, like routers, 
fiber-port routers, ethernet switches, and most of the 
termination system made by Cisco, Broadcom, Huawei and others 
running at least millions of lines of C code on the embedded 
linux system.

So, We have very big chance for spreading to these market. D is 
really syntax-clean and provides more productive.

We need tutorial for cross-compiling a whole d project for the 
ARM, MIPS linux systems, and we need the cross-compile toolchain 
ready to download.

so, any ideas?


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