Mid-term vision review

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/3/15 9:41 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> 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.

The matter of finding a champion applies all the same :o). -- Andrei