Supported architectures for D

[John Reimer]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:38:51 -0700, Chad J  
<gamerChad at _spamIsBad_gmail.com> wrote:

> Wim Vander Schelden wrote:
>> I have noticed strange thing just below the surface of my screen as  
>> well, they look like bubbles, and I have noticed the screens surface is  
>> very easily damaged (scratches etc) so lets just hope it doesn't break  
>> just yet. As for the responsiveness of palm os, sure, if you use it for  
>> its calendar and things like that it may be responsive, but once you  
>> use its wifi things go wrong :) I never used WM5, but WM2k3 worked  
>> nicely for me, albeit it often crashed. A friend of mine owned a Dell  
>> x50v, and it was bulky, power hungry and the UI was dog ugly, way worse  
>> than the simple WM2k3. Why didn't they just stick their Windows XP  
>> teletubbie skin (green-blue and a wallpaper of a hill that looks like  
>> its a screenshot from teletubbieland) on it to make the torment  
>> complete?
>> That said, he API for software development is awful on a palm, its  
>> something that should have been flagged "deprecated" a few decades ago.  
>> Thank god their switching to linux :)
>>  /End of off-topic slandering of all PDA OS'es
>>  - Wim
>>
>
> So a Dell x50v with WM2k3 would be a decent choice (I'm thinking of  
> getting one)?  I want the 480x640 res, and I want to be able to run my D  
> programs on it :)
>
> Yeah the palm API... this is why I am working on a WinCE port and not a  
> Palm port, and why I'm willing to give ARM-linux a shot but I'm not  
> going to touch palm until the game I want to write is completed.  It  
> seems like a lot of extra work in Phobos making everything work with  
> palm, when they might just switch to linux soon.


It's true, Palm just isn't a choice.  While I liked it's responsiveness  
and simple user interface, I agree with Wim that the programming interface  
was an embarassment: it was rediculously outdated and horribly handicapped  
despite new technology.  You couldn't take advantage of the 32-bit ARM  
without serious duct tape.  Neither could you program outside of 64K  
(32K?) because you were basically working within the old Motorola emulator  
limitations.  I don't mind seeing a linux replacement on Palm... but Palm  
has lost no matter what they do now. It's a joke.  I doubt they can  
recover from their fall seeing that there are already several linux PDA  
alternatives out there now.  Furhermore the PDA craze seems to already be  
fading.

I don't like the WinCE programming interface either, which amounts to  
win32 programming, but I certainly wouldn't mind programming on it if D  
were available there.

-JJR