Nim programming language finally hit 1.0

[Chris]

On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 19:33:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

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That sounds exactly like the nightmare I imagined it to be. I 
looked at Joakim's stuff a few times but realized the solutions 
for D on Android were still way too tricky and delicate. What he 
did is a great piece of engineering, but nothing that 
particularly inspires you to say "Yes, I'll go with D!" I'm glad 
that there is a bit of movement now.

>
> (And, to dream on, in the future we could potentially have 
> built-in Java support in D, in a similar style that we 
> interface with C/C++ today: declare Java classes/methods using 
> D equivalents, and have the compiler or a library auto-generate 
> the JNI code for it.  Or potentially just ditch JNI and use JNA 
> instead, which is far less boilerplate-y. But as far as Android 
> is concerned, JNA may not be available yet, so for the near 
> future JNI seems to the way to go.)
>
>
> T

That'd actually be great. Atm, interfacing D and Java is awkward. 
I've done it a few times (once I compiled my D code to a lib and 
used JavaFX for the UI), but it's certainly nothing you look 
forward to doing ;)