Stable D version?
Paulo Pinto
pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Apr 29 04:15:18 PDT 2013
On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 10:38:32 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 09:54:29 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> This guys don't have any issues selling Oberon compilers for
>> embedded use.
>> ...
>
> That is simple, "embedded" is a buzzword often understood as
> "something like PC but small". Such definition is quite useless
> because it implies no specific requirements. Like, calling
> modern ARM smartphone an embedded system? No way. You can even
> afford to have something as inefficient as kernel in Java on
> those machines, why not.
>
> Much more practical definition of "embedded" is all about
> specific requirements. Real-time systems, systems with hard
> memory restrictions (imagine coding in environment where malloc
> is prohibited because every single byte of physical memory is
> pre-allocated). Those can vary from microchips to monstrous
> servers and I don't see anything but C or C++ with lot of
> custom policies used there.
Quoting myself
"Or course this is a very limited subset of what embedded is all
about, but I think D could also be usable in such types of
boards."
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