dmd platform support - poll

[Sönke Ludwig]

Order of preference:
   Mac 32bit
   * 64bit
   .net
   --- below only theoretically interesting
   freebsd
   netbsd
   jvm


For my personal project I'm currently fine with only 32-bit x86 support. 
  Mac support would definitely be the most important step here, 
especially since many people I know which would like to use D are on 
Macs and are discouraged by the bad support for that platform. Also it 
will be an important platform for the time when the project goes public.

At work I would like to eventually start introducing D when D2 has 
settled a bit (the planned threading model will be very interesting 
there). In that environment all of Win/32/64 and Mac/32/64 would have to 
be supported. 64-bit support can be very useful there, as virtual 
address space is a major optimization target (image processing and 
database operations). In addition, 64-bit support is required by 
marketing needs alone (people with their shiny new Vista-64 PC asking 
why the software does not use their hardware properly). Currently we 
also still have to support PPC. I'm not sure how long that requirement 
holds, probably depends on Apple's own deprecation policy.

.NET support would be very welcome if it could act as a transparent 
bridge between D and .NET (same would go for D and Cocoa) - This would 
be the part where Managed C++ (or Objective-C++) is currently used. If 
.net should be supported before OS X, this could also be used as a nice 
platform replacement.