Writing GBA games with D!

[TheGag96]

On Wednesday, 19 May 2021 at 13:52:58 UTC, Raimondo Mancino wrote:
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Very cool, from a fellow Nintendo D homebrewer in arms!! I would 
love to see more people using the language this way. I myself am 
having a lot of fun writing a game in D for the 3DS - here's a 
basic [hello world + 
bindings](https://github.com/TheGag96/3ds-hello-dlang) that I 
almost certainly need to update.

I'm kind of shocked you're not using 
[devkitARM](https://github.com/devkitPro/gba-examples). Any 
reason? At first, I modified the toolchain to compile D support 
into GCC, but like someone already suggested here, I'm using LDC 
now and am not looking back. Definitely recommend doing so.

DevkitARM uses Newlib also, and D unfortunately doesn't yet have 
bindings for it yet. In my repo, you'll see that I had to kind of 
study Newlib's header files and try to hack into druntime in 
myself. LDC made a change recently that reserves the version 
`CRuntime_Newlib`, so you will probably have to something similar 
to what I did but call it `CRuntime_Gba` or something. Hopefully 
it'll get first class support down the road (people actually 
looking to use it like you and I should probably be taking up the 
charge, honestly lol).

Just curious, what kind of game/app are you looking to make with 
this?