Smartphones and D

[Trass3r]

> I'm currently doing business with 4 commercial applications on Android  
> 2.1+ and iPhone 3GS+.

It's funny, I thought about the usage of D for smart phones just the other  
day.


> My question is, how well does D support ARMv6 and ARMv7?

Johannes Pfau recently managed to build gdc as an ARM cross-compiler, see  
the D.gnu newsgroup.
So it IS possible to compile ARM code with D but since this hasn't really  
been used by anyone so far, you're on an unpaved road.


> Reading this newsgroup revealed that D uses some kind of thing called  
> 'lowerings' for optimizing high level features.

Haven't heard of that.


> Has anyone done any Android/iPhone development in D?
> how long will it take before D beats C/C++ on these platforms?

It's a matter of how many people use it.

> How I see it is there's not much time left to earn big money on these.  
> Some popular applications already become (adware) free because of piracy  
> and competition.

Very true.