Arduino and D

[Filipe Laíns]

On Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 22:55:12 UTC, Israel wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 21:49:53 UTC, Ty Tower wrote:
>> Has anybody tapped the massive Arduino programming explosion 
>> using D instead of C++ ?
>> I got started on Arduino a few years back and it has taken the 
>> microprocessor popularity through the roof .
>> Unfortunately you download the IDE (Integrated Development 
>> Environment) from Arduino.cc direct and then using a $3 
>> development board with a 328p chip on it ,proceed to program 
>> the  chip to do pretty much whatever you can think of 
>> including turning stuff on with your mobile from anywhere in 
>> the world  and much much more .
>>
>> I wondered if someone could adapt it to D ?
>
> Well it is ARM so it should be possible.

Actually, most arduinos use Atmel's chips so most of them are AVR.
Apparently, there was some work done to port GDC to AVR [1]. I 
don't really know the usability of this but I suspect it's not 
much.

If you want a board with similar size too small arduino like the 
pro/pro mini that has an ARM chip, you should have a look at 
Teensy[2]. Using D to program ARM chips shouldn't be that hard.

[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-microD/GDC/tree/microD-4.9
[2] https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/