D as A Better C?

[Mike]

On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 20:34:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 20:12:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto 
> wrote:
>>> distributing binary libraries for barebone? that sounds 
>>> unusual.
>>
>> Why so?
>
> untypical hardware + desire to get most of it makes hard to 
> provide binary distributions that can be simply linked to. Only 
> platform SDK's come to my mind but those don't need to support 
> all possible options - instead they define only "right" ones to 
> use. Well, at least that was small observation of C barebone 
> world I have managed to tackle.

SDKs and BSPs are the norm in my industry, but some libraries are 
out there (http://www.segger.com/pricing.html)... and they are 
expensive.  But I think they are usually source releases.