Mid-term vision review

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 15:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/3/15 3:10 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> It would be great to have dmd on embedded platforms.
>
> I agree. We just don't have the champion for that yet. -- Andrei

I might obviously be biased, but to be honest I don't see much 
value in starting to port a largely obsolete backend to a whole 
new processor architecture.

Sure, it might be a fun exercise for somebody interested in 
learning about code generation. But in terms of pushing D 
forward, I think the much better option is to encourage people to 
contribute to GDC or LDC instead, where backends for virtually 
all important embedded platforms already exist.

  — David