Re: What about Embedded?

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

David Nielsen wrote:
> tor, 20 07 2006 kl. 23:24 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken:
>
> > The D language offers the best of all worlds IMO *without* compromising 
> > on speed, resource usage or bloat. It would be madness to use a VM instead!
> >
> > (of course its not as integrated into Gnome yet and lacks an IDE but if 
> > someone puts the work in you will have a killer platform than no VM 
> > based platform can match)
>
> ... in about 10 years, once D exits beta and someone sits down to write
> a proper IDE, the bindings, etc.. 

D is already stable enough - yes its officially still in beta but 
nothing has changed there and people are building apps with it.

Mono is here now, it has basically all
> the tools we want, the Mono maintainers care about GNOME and as an added
> bonus we get to market GNOME to all the college students who are
> currently being trained with .NET in mind.

All too true - its why we need volunteers to beef up D's offering. We do 
have GTK bindings though (http://dui.sourceforge.net/)

> Aside such things as the existence of tons of books, documentation,
> classes and existing programmers for .NET, I agree D is a shoe in..

For Gnome to be the best desktop it needs the best technology and that 
is arguably the D language. On a technical basis it is currently 
unbeatable (I think!)


> I have confidence in Miguels team, I'm sure they'll optimize the crap
> out that sucker if we hit serious problems providing GNOME using Mono.

As a c# programmer myself (asp.net) I know how hard that is. If they can 
make mono anywhere near as good as D then he will have converted me!


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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