On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 11:24:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 11:15:20 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Quoting myself
>>
>> "Or course this is a very limited subset of what embedded is all
>> about, but I think D could also be usable in such types of boards."
>
> Okay, pardon me, may be I have not highlighted my point clear enough: there is no real market for D in that limited subset because it has to compete with Java, C# or any modern language based on their virtual machines. And, similar to desktop usage, lot of selling points for D are lost then, because, well, why bother?
>
> Contrary to this, any language who can make it into real embedded domain will be almost uncontested, because this industry is still stuck with 40-year obsolete tools. But that is not something that may happen on its own.

Fair enough, I agree with you there.