D at 8-bit platform - some experiences

[Max Samukha]

On Thursday, 6 July 2023 at 20:33:13 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

> There's going to have been quite a few changes compared to 
> gdc-13.1 - I hope for the better, but I have some intuition 
> that tells me we're more at the mercy of the front-end 
> implementation doing silly lowerings now compared to 2.076.x.

GDC 13.1 doesn't work for me because `~=` is 'lowered' to 
something involving `cast(int)r.length - 1`, which is not cast 
back to `ushort` and causes an implicit conversion error. GDC 
11.4 works fine.