Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Patrick Schluter]

On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 07:35:34 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 07:10:38 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 at 23:05, Nicholas Wilson via 
>> Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 06:34:17 UTC, JN wrote:
>>> > If the LDC was the only compiler, I don't think people 
>>> > would complain as much (based on popular 'compiler 
>>> > framework', crossplatform, great codegen).
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure Iain would =P
>>>
>>
>> If only because I've never gotten LDC to work. :-P
>
> It should work out of the box, if it doesn't please file a bug 
> report.
>
>> (Nor do I have reason to believe it's been given much testing 
>> beyond x86/64, despite a good breadth of OS support).
>
> I used it for my honours thesis on RasPi3b+ with Raspian so it 
> definitely works on ARM. OpenCL and CUDA also work. Never tried 
> on MIPS, PPC or AArch64.

I also have it running on my Helios4 NAS, which is Armbian on an 
Marvell ARMADA® 388 ARM CPU. I built the compiler from scratch to 
test bootstrapping.
Worked without problems. I still didn't manage to get DWT to work 
but that is more a problem of the Helios4 that does not have a 
graphical user interface by default, which is logical as the unit 
does not have a graphical output.