Quick question about target patforms . . .

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:23:49 +0400, Olivier Pisano  
<olivier.pisano at laposte.net> wrote:

> Le 25/10/2010 09:27, Walter Bright a écrit :
>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>> . . . but they may have been asked before and I just missed them in
>>> trawling around.
>>>
>>> Is the intention that D should be the language of choice for
>>> implementing applications on MeeGo? If not maybe it should?
>>>
>>> I guess the same question goes for iOS -- although Object-C and C++ are
>>> the assumed languages of development, nothing in the various Apple "app
>>> stores" rules would discriminate against D -- unlike what they do
>>> regarding Python, Flash and Java!
>>
>> Yes - we just need an ARM version of the compiler!
>
> I am not sure the D GC wouldn't be a problem for Apple, as they did  
> remove the Objective-C GC on iOS.

IIRC they only did that for performance reasons. Apple now allows building  
iOS application with any tool, including Flash (that does feature a GC as  
part of the VM but that's hardly relevant) so there shouldn't be any  
problem with D.