On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:34:40 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> [D is] C extended to an OO language *without* any attempt at being
> backwards compatible. It can be about an order of magnitude more
> readable than good C++ IMHO.
>
Sounds interesting, the more so as I'm quite a Java fan to the extend
that if I need an application with a graphical user interface, I'll use
Java rather than anything else: Swing, aided and abetted with the 3rd
Party RiverLayout layout manager is a very easy way to make a neat, user
friendly GUI.

So, I had a dig round and have discovered that, although there are Linux
ports of both the reference compiler, DMD, and the GCC compiler, GDC,
they only support i386, amd64 and 64 bit ARM. That is a problem because
all my machines are excluded: I'm running x86_64 Fedora 28 on my main
boxes (Core duo, I5, dual Athlon) and my RPi (32bit 2B). If there was a
an X86_64 Fedora package I'd install it and have a play, but I'm not keen
or (probably) knowledgeable enough to build it myself.

Pity: If there was an X86_64 version available I'd have enjoyed having a
play.


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