[OT] LLVM Community Code of Conduct

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 04:05:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/18/15 2:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> I think we are good as we are right now. There is an "others" 
>> link on
>> the download page, so people interested in support for less 
>> common or
>> less supported platforms can find said information on the wiki.
>
> Mobile support is huge, and one of the first things people ask 
> about D. If ldc supports mobile platforms, that tidbit should 
> be mentioned FRONT AND CENTER.
>
> Again: I didn't know it! People ask me about mobile support all 
> the time and I'm telling them "not yet".

And we're not there yet.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand, you'll get 
nowhere on mobile with any current official LDC releases. Saying 
that LDC supports iOS/Android out of the box on dlang.org would 
be false advertising at this point.

I'm not sure what expectations people have when they hear 
"language X supports iOS/Android", but at least as someone who 
hasn't done a lot of mobile development, I'd expect that the 
official compiler can emit code I can call from my app, and get 
it all working in minutes. This would include tutorials of how 
would I compile/link this D code and make it talk to my 
Java/Obj-C/Swift UI code. Again, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about this as anyone, but at 
the same time I don't want people mocking us for claiming support 
when what we have is a proof-of-concept provided by a third-party 
fork.