Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Jul 2 20:42:25 UTC 2020


On 7/1/2020 8:48 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 08:22:25 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> 
>>
>> A 35$ Raspberry PI supports 2x 4K display, and comes with a Debian based linux 
>> complete with GUI. You can attach a keyboard, mouse and have a little ARM 
>> machine to toy with (but no precompiled LDC, its 32bit ...)
> 
> What do you mean by "no precompiled LDC?"
> 
> Just `sudo apt install ldc` and you go....
> 
> ldc2 --version
> LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0):
>    based on DMD v2.082.1 and LLVM 6.0.1
>    built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0)
>    Default target: armv6-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
>    Host CPU: cortex-a72
>    http://dlang.org - http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC
> 

Clearly, someone needs to write a D blog article explaining how to get a simple 
D program compiled and running on the Raspberry Pi. Note that the D Foundation 
pays for articles that are published on the D Blog.

What are you waiting for? :-)


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