Google Android

[Georg Wrede]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> 2009/4/29 Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight at gmail.com>:
>> Weed wrote:
>>> Is it possible to implement support for Google Android on the D?
>> Perhaps, but it'd be easier to implement support for D on the Google Android
>> :-).
>>
>> LDC might be able to generate .class files, which can be run through the
>> Android thingy to get them into a format gor which Google doesn't have to
>> pay Sun. The trick would be integrating D and Java's GCs. You can probably
>> already get a *very* simple program which doesn't use the D runtime working
>> by using LDC to generate a .bc, using the LLVM JVM backend to write out a
>> .class file and run it through the google thing. Not sure if anyone's tried
>> it, though.
>>
> 
> According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android )
> it should be possible to run native ARM code, even though it's not
> officially supported by google.
> 
> It's probably possible to get a full D implementation, but someone
> would just have to fix Tango on ARM ;)

I'd just hate to create statically linked programs on a small machine. 
Feels like a massive waste of space.

Typically I'd think the apps would be less than a thousand lines of 
code, and already having several tens of such binaries could either take 
a small or a huge amount of memory.