Mid-term vision review

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/3/2015 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.

It's not obsolete at all. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, or 
preventing new optimizations being added to it. After all, I didn't have trouble 
upgrading it from 16 to 32 bits, from 32 to 64, to Linux, to OSX, to SIMD, etc.