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

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> 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).
> 

It would lower the barrier to entry. While not to important once someone 
has chosen D, I would think it would be much more important when they are 
just considering it.

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