Where will D be in 2015 in the programming language ecosphere?

[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
> Hello dsimcha,
> 
>> For
>> the lower-level systems programming case, the requirement for a
>> runtime (even if it's a fairly lightweight one) and the lack of fine
>> control over things like binary size (due to templates, etc.) will
>> limit usefulness.  Yes, these problems can be worked around, but doing
>> so requires sticking to so much of a C-like subset that you may as
>> well just use C.
> 
> Maybe someone should make a DMD-EE ("embedded edition") with a truly 
> minimal runtime and library along with a compiler patched to support it 
> (e.g. no GC, no AA's, no hidden memory allocations, no new/delete, 
> D-ified versions of the c std lib). The DMD patch shouldn't be to hard, 
> the runtime would mostly amount to dropping stuff and the lib would 
> mostly just copy some stuff from phobos and wrapping, porting or binding 
> (depending on what's more reasonable) stuff from C.
> 
> I'd offer to do it but I have almost no experience in any of those.


There's not a whole lot of point to do this, other than checking a box, because 
embedded systems developers have no problem doing this themselves (create a 
custom runtime library).