The X Macro

[Justin Johansson]

Rory McGuire wrote:
> 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

"Do you know if there are plans for D2 on LLVM?"
I think others would know better than myself though I have previously 
surmised from this ng that D implementation for LLVM is waning at the 
moment.