digitalmars.D - GCC Looks To Turn Off Java, Replace With Go Or ADA - why not D?
- JN (3/3) Nov 10 2013 This is going around Reddit at the moment:
- Jesse Phillips (4/7) Nov 10 2013 D isn't in the official code base yet, so I suspect that is one
- Jacob Carlborg (4/7) Nov 10 2013 D needs to be officially included in GCC to begin with.
- Paulo Pinto (6/9) Nov 10 2013 Because GCC developers are part of the Go team and Ada Core actively
- Iain Buclaw (7/10) Nov 10 2013 Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable t...
- Paulo Pinto (4/17) Nov 10 2013 From the discussion thread it seems Ada will be the winner.
- Andrew (2/2) Nov 12 2013 And, of course, D doesn't work on ARM which is probably the
This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?
Nov 10 2013
On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 17:39:21 UTC, JN wrote:This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?D isn't in the official code base yet, so I suspect that is one big item. D likely exercises more code than Go, but can't say for sure.
Nov 10 2013
On 2013-11-10 18:39, JN wrote:This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?D needs to be officially included in GCC to begin with. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Nov 10 2013
Am 10.11.2013 18:39, schrieb JN:This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?Because GCC developers are part of the Go team and Ada Core actively supports Ada development in GCC. Both are integrated into GCC source tree. D is still not integrated into GCC source tree. -- Paulo
Nov 10 2013
On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total wp.pl> wrote:This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable to replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same reasons that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being suitable. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Nov 10 2013
Am 10.11.2013 23:03, schrieb Iain Buclaw:On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total wp.pl <mailto:666total wp.pl>> wrote: This is going around Reddit at the moment: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.__php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA> they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D? Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable to replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same reasons that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being suitable. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';From the discussion thread it seems Ada will be the winner. -- Paulo
Nov 10 2013
And, of course, D doesn't work on ARM which is probably the single biggest target for GCC.
Nov 12 2013