On Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 21:49:53 UTC, Ty Tower wrote:
> Has anybody tapped the massive (http://letsfindcourse.com/arduino Arduino) programming explosion using D instead of C++ ?
> I got started on Arduino a few years back and it has taken the microprocessor popularity through the roof .
> Unfortunately you download the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) from Arduino.cc direct and then using a $3 development board with a 328p chip on it ,proceed to program the  chip to do pretty much whatever you can think of including turning stuff on with your mobile from anywhere in the world  and much much more .
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> I wondered if someone could adapt it to D ?

NO

On Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 22:55:12 UTC, Israel wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 21:49:53 UTC, Ty Tower wrote:
>> Has anybody tapped the massive Arduino programming explosion using D instead of C++ ?
>> I got started on Arduino a few years back and it has taken the microprocessor popularity through the roof .
>> Unfortunately you download the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) from Arduino.cc direct and then using a $3 development board with a 328p chip on it ,proceed to program the  chip to do pretty much whatever you can think of including turning stuff on with your mobile from anywhere in the world  and much much more .
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>> I wondered if someone could adapt it to D ?
>
> Well it is ARM so it should be possible.

No, it's AVR not ARM (in fact it's both, AVR for the small devices and ARM for the big ones).

On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 08:48:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 22:28 +0000, Filipe Laíns via Digitalmars-d wrote: […]
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>> Actually, most arduinos use Atmel's chips so most of them are AVR. Apparently, there was some work done to port GDC to AVR [1]. I don't really know the usability of this but I suspect it's not much.
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> [1] Looks very old and unmaintained, i.e. 4 years since the last commit. Also D (gdc) is now a part of the GCC suite, which may explain [1] being retred. GCC has AVR backends, thus gdc has an AVR backend. Also it has an ARM backend. Like ldc, gdc gets many backends (more or less) for free.
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> GCC is now at 8.0.0, but what version of D is it using in gdc?
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> Is a desire to see D used more in IoT projects a reason for more people to be interested in gdc and help get it's version updated with each GCC release. Alternatively does D in IoT mean "use ldc". Does the LLVM suite support AVR and ARM backends as GCC does?
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>> If you want a board with similar size too small arduino like the pro/pro mini that has an ARM chip, you should have a look at Teensy[2]. Using D to program ARM chips shouldn't be that hard.
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>> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-microD/GDC/tree/microD-4.9 [2] https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
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> Someone sent me a couple of ESP8266 development boards and a ESP-WROOM-32 development board, the intention being to play with them as MicroPython devices. I see from the device websites, they are intended for use as standard Arduino (presumably C) devices or as Lua controlled devices. Perhaps they should be D controlled devices as well. I guess though the problem is which firmware to load to then use as a D controlled device, and which toolchain to use with it: Arduino mode has a full IDE/ICE set up. Also does D have the library to deal with controlling hardware. How easy is it to build D codes with gdc or ldc without Phobos, and without DRuntime?
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> Is D wthout Phobos useful for IoT or should one stick with C,Lua, and MicroPython? Is IoT an opportunity for D or is it a false direction given D is an x86/x86_64 oriented programming language?

LLVM has an AVR target.
I was able to run a simple LED blink program using betterC on an AVR attiny chip. I just output the IR from LDC, and put it through LLVM targeting AVR. No work needs to be done, D already works on AVR!

On Monday, 27 May 2019 at 15:13:31 UTC, NAme wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 08:48:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 22:28 +0000, Filipe Laíns via Digitalmars-d wrote: […]
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>> to deal with controlling hardware. How easy is it to build D codes with gdc or ldc without Phobos, and without DRuntime?
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>> Is D wthout Phobos useful for IoT or should one stick with C,Lua, and MicroPython? Is IoT an opportunity for D or is it a false direction given D is an x86/x86_64 oriented programming language?
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> LLVM has an AVR target.
> I was able to run a simple LED blink program using betterC on an AVR attiny chip. I just output the IR from LDC, and put it through LLVM targeting AVR. No work needs to be done, D already works on AVR!
Cool!