On 12/11/2011 10:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:

In my experience programming embedded systems in highly constrained environments
usually means assembly or at most a C compiler using lots
of compiler specific extensions for the target environment.

I fail to see how D without GC could be a better tool in such enviroments.

For a system with a tiny amount of memory, D probably is the wrong tool. My suggestion would be:

0..64K assembler
64K..1M C
1M+ D

The larger your program is, the more D starts to pull ahead.