Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?

On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?

I don't know if anyone has tried, but it would definitely be an interesting project.

On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?

who is using it actually?

 On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap
> wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?
>
> who is using it actually?

I just started looking at Plan9 and DMD last weekend. I have nothing to show for it, I was just tinkering but I am toying with the idea of porting Plan9 to D as a hobby project.

It would be great if others have any experiences to share with D and Plan9.

Cheers,
ed

On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 13:42:49 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> Just out of curiosity.,. Is there any way to use D with it?

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Porting_alien_software_to_Plan_9/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/POSIX_Environment

It might take some work, but I suspect that Plan 9 is sufficiently similar to a POSIX OS that DMD will more-or-less run with a few tweaks to the build files.

The more interesting project would probably be to attach the D front end to a backend that produces Dis machine code, for Inferno. Since Inferno natively supports a garbage collector, a lot of the runtime could be excluded.