The X Macro

[Rory McGuire]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:35:30 +0200, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> wrote:

> Rory McGuire wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:11:53 +0200, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/the_x_macro.html
>>>>  Even though D doesn't have a text macro preprocessor, this can be  
>>>> done using string mixins and a bit of CTFE.
>>>
>>> Very cool article.  Thanks Walter, I'll try to remember to pass that  
>>> on to my grandkids :-)
>>>
>>> Also on that DDJ page I saw the ad for the Samsung Bada developer  
>>> challenge.
>>>
>>> http://developer.bada.com/challenge/index.do
>>>
>>> There is some decent $prize money on offer here.  Of course you have  
>>> to use the Samsung Bada SDK which I understand is C++.
>>>
>>> Naturally we would all delight in one of the winning entires being  
>>> some Bada app written in D.
>>>
>>> Now thinking about a killer app for D, me thinks it doesn't really  
>>> matter what that app really does or if even it is really lame.
>>>
>>> The real kill would come from a D app winning a prize in the Bada  
>>> Developer Challenge.
>>>
>>> So wadda you reckon?
>>  what processor/s are we talking about? I'm guessing ARM.
>> GDC is a bit out dated isn't it? (GDC being the only D compiler that  
>> might support ARM processors)
>>  -Rory
>
> ARM is probably right.  ARM, handhelds, mobile etc is where all the  
> action is at the moment.
>
> You are dead right about GDC; it's dead and nowhere near D2.
>
> D (D2) needs a marketing and rollout plan.  One good such plan would  
> embrace ARM, handhelds, mobile etc.
>
> Hint, hint.  Golden (marketing) opportunities like this do not come  
> around very often.

found this about LDC. Do you know if there are plans for D2 on LLVM.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.ldc/1

-Rory