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reply "Jonathan Dunlap" <jadit2 gmail.com> writes:
Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?
Mar 12 2014
next sibling parent "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap 
wrote:

 Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?


I don't know if anyone has tried, but it would definitely be an 
interesting project.
Mar 12 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Asman01" <jckj33 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap 
wrote:

 Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?


who is using it actually?
Mar 12 2014
parent "ed" <growlercab gmail.com> writes:
  On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap

 wrote:

 Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?


 who is using it actually?


I just started looking at Plan9 and DMD last weekend. I have 
nothing to show for it, I was just tinkering but I am toying with 
the idea of porting Plan9 to D as a hobby project.

It would be great if others have any experiences to share with D 
and Plan9.

Cheers,
ed
Mar 12 2014
prev sibling parent "Chris Williams" <yoreanon-chrisw yahoo.co.jp> writes:
On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap 
wrote:

 Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?


http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Porting_alien_software_to_Plan_9/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/POSIX_Environment

It might take some work, but I suspect that Plan 9 is 
sufficiently similar to a POSIX OS that DMD will more-or-less run 
with a few tweaks to the build files.

The more interesting project would probably be to attach the D 
front end to a backend that produces Dis machine code, for 
Inferno. Since Inferno natively supports a garbage collector, a 
lot of the runtime could be excluded.
Mar 12 2014