Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> writes: > Cool, I also tried this, with DMD tough. I didn't get very far, there > are functionality that DMD needs that's missing from the iPhone SDK.
Jacob, how far did you get? A couple years ago I started building a bare druntime. Not too useful because I stripped GC and with that goes classes, delagates, dynamic arrays, and other stuff I don't recall. I was going for small embedded use of D (not ios) and wanted to see how much of the language required GC support. Anyway, I was thinking of reviving some of that to build a minimal support runtime for arm/ios, but leave the GC in since ios is not a small embedded system. Eventualy add more and more of phobos. The reason I want to do this is that I think objective-c should just be one of those interesting hybrid languages in the evolution tree, but should begin to die off since modern languages are so better designed (my opinion). I read a post in D newsgroup years ago about a compiler mod that allows D to use objective-C style method dispatch (by M. Fortin? or somebody like that - I'd have to search). An ARM D with his feature, then you can use D to write for ios. It would make programming fun! Well, more fun.
