Mid-term vision review

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Mike"  wrote in message news:ipfucgyjwwjdvmmikqcm at forum.dlang.org...

> Also, there may not be any need for changes to the backend.  The Intel 
> Galileo [1] is a Pentium-based Quark MCU [2], and the Intel Edison [3] is 
> a dual-core Atom CPU.  Walter already said he thinks DMD might be able to 
> program the Quark.  These aren't really "micro"controllers as they have an 
> abundance of resources compared to the ARM Cortex-M and Atmel AVRs, but it 
> has it's place in the ecosystem.
>
> Also, there is no reason one can't use their desktop PC to experiment.  I 
> see modularization of the language benefiting all domains, and I think if 
> it existed, we'd see those features exploited in many interesting ways.

Yes, as long as we're targeting x86 the dmd backend has a chance.  Targeting 
another architecture would not be worth the effort.