D on next-gen consoles and for game development

[Manu]

On 24 May 2013 09:44, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net>wrote:

> On 05/24/2013 01:25 AM, Manu wrote:
> > I really hope D on ARM gets some more attention in the near future. The
> day it
> > can be used on Android will be a very significant breakthrough!
>
> GDC is close to being fully usable on ARM, no?  And as I recall the only
> (albeit
> major) problem you had with GDC was the delay between bugfixes landing in
> the D
> frontend and carrying over to GDC.
>
> So, the solution here might be the work to properly generalize the
> frontend so
> that it will plug-and-play on top of any of the available backends.
>

Well the compiler seems fine actually. It generates good ARM code in my
experience, ditto for PPC, MIPS, SH4 (those are all I have tested).

Druntime needs to be ported to Bionic. People have made a start, but I
recall mention of some complications that need some work?
iOS needs extern(ObjC), but it's a fairly standard posix underneath, so
should be less work on the runtime.

Systems like WiiU/Wii/PS3/XBox360, etc all need runtimes, and those will
probably not be developed by the D community.
It would land on a general gamedev's shoulders to do those, so I would
suggest the approach here would be to make a step-buy-step guide to porting
druntime. Make the process as simple as possible for individuals wanting to
support other 'niche' platforms...
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