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digitalmars.D - GCC Looks To Turn Off Java, Replace With Go Or ADA - why not D?

reply "JN" <666total wp.pl> writes:
This is going around Reddit at the moment:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?
Nov 10 2013
next sibling parent "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 17:39:21 UTC, JN wrote:

 This is going around Reddit at the moment:

 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

 they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?


D isn't in the official code base yet, so I suspect that is one 
big item.

D likely exercises more code than Go, but can't say for sure.
Nov 10 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2013-11-10 18:39, JN wrote:

 This is going around Reddit at the moment:

 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

 they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?


D needs to be officially included in GCC to begin with.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 10 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 10.11.2013 18:39, schrieb JN:

 This is going around Reddit at the moment:

 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

 they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?


Because GCC developers are part of the Go team and Ada Core actively 
supports Ada development in GCC. Both are integrated into GCC source tree.

D is still not integrated into GCC source tree.

--
Paulo
Nov 10 2013
prev sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total wp.pl> wrote:


 This is going around Reddit at the moment:

 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA

 they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?


Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable to
replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same reasons
that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being suitable.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Nov 10 2013
parent reply Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 10.11.2013 23:03, schrieb Iain Buclaw:

 On 10 November 2013 17:39, JN <666total wp.pl <mailto:666total wp.pl>>
 wrote:

     This is going around Reddit at the moment:

     http://www.phoronix.com/scan.__php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA
     <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwOTA>

     they mention Go or ADA as replacements for GCJ, why not D?


 Barring what has already been said, I would add that D is not suitable
 to replace Java in the default languages to build for most of the same
 reasons that Ian (maintainer of Go) said about his front-end not being
 suitable.

 --
 Iain Buclaw

 *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';


 From the discussion thread it seems Ada will be the winner.

--
Paulo
Nov 10 2013
parent "Andrew" <andrew nowhere.com> writes:
And, of course, D doesn't work on ARM which is probably the 
single biggest target for GCC.
Nov 12 2013