On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 16:52:05 UTC, Freddie Chopin wrote:
Yes, we're talking about real bare-metal here (; I think D with it's safety fits really nicely in the embedded niche... I think that if D could be used on a system with 128kB of flash and 8kB of RAM that would be great. If it would require the chip to have more RAM it wouldn't be so great, but a 16kB or 32kB is still quite OK... This would probably require D's lib (phobos) to NOT depend on garbage collector (or maybe use it only in some high-level stuff that would be to big for such embedded system anyway).
To be even more specific - I'm talking about microCONTROLLERS (not micro-processors), ARM Cortex-M3 or Cortex-M4, STM32, LPC17xx, maybe even Cortex-M0 if the footprint is low enough... So no MMU, sometimes MPU (rarely), ROM in "hundreds of kilobytes", RAM in "tens of kilobytes" (sometimes less, rarely over 100kB - only for really big chips).
PC programmers have so many options to choose from, while on the MCUs it's basically only C (really about 99.666%), C++ sometimes, sometimes assembly - there are also things not worth mentioning like BASIC for some AVR chips and that's about all...
4\/3!!
