If I had my way

[Paulo Pinto]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> On 12/11/2011 10:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> > In my experience programming embedded systems in highly constrained environments
> > usually means assembly or at most a C compiler using lots
> > of compiler specific extensions for the target environment.
> >
> > I fail to see how D without GC could be a better tool in such enviroments.
> 
> For a system with a tiny amount of memory, D probably is the wrong tool. My 
> suggestion would be:
> 
> 0..64K assembler
> 64K..1M C
> 1M+ D
> 
> The larger your program is, the more D starts to pull ahead.

Exactly, and with 1M+ we are already getting into the processor's realm which have C# and Java tolchains with AOT compilation and GC with real time extensions available. So why have D without GC for such environments?