On 2012-11-02 17:12, Dan Olson wrote:
Jacob, how far did you get?
I didn't try much, I never was able to compile DMD with the SDK used buy the simulator. One thing I know was missing was the Gestalt function, it's used to get information about Mac OS X, like what exact version.
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.
That would be so cool to have. The DMD fork you referring to would be this one by Michel Fortin:
http://michelf.ca/projects/d-objc/ There's an alpha version available but it's getting quite old now. -- /Jacob Carlborg
