Dlang on $4 microcontroller board from Raspberry Pi RP2040

[max haughton]

On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 01:14:50 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 17:54:02 UTC, Igor Myronov wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 07:24:07 UTC, forkit wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 05:07:09 UTC, Igor Myronov wrote:
>>>> I'm wondering if a such nice programming language should be 
>>>> possible to use on small MCU's like RP2040,PIC32 and so on.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Arhggg...32bit controllers! In 2022!
>>>
>>> There goes any hope of ridding D of its 32bit baggage.
>>
>> From what i got already learned in these days it looks like 
>> Dlang is pretty useless on any kind of MCU.
>> There's no solid stuff happening for Dlang on MCU's,so i 
>> suppose that this kind of theme should be postponed for a few 
>> years yet before getting Dlang for real embedded system 
>> development.
>>
>> Unfortunately :(
>
> yeah, embedded is not focused in D community, Rust and Nim is 
> doing this, they all have
>  `embedded` channel in their Discord.

People have been using D on embedded targets for longer than Rust 
and Nim have existed.

What you're looking for is basically the peacock's tail rather 
than the stuff that actually carries the DNA.

Ask a specific question and someone will help you, quite possibly 
me, but just moaning about how there isn't an embedded channel 
discord (If you're in the D discord server you'll notice that 
there are several people who run D on embedded targets fairly 
regularly). If you want help from scratch then that is OK but 
there is literally nothing special about targeting controllers, 
beyond having to probably set up your own toolchain.

In fact I have just asked the discord admins to add an embedded 
channel in the server.