On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 18:58:52 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> 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.

 Hmm interesting, I've had to do too much 'enterprise' Java in my
time and thus overlooked it as a handy GUI language. I should revisit Java
without the cultural baggage I'm accustomed to seeing with it.

> 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

 You're fine then, amd64 is another name for x86_64 reflecting the
fact that AMD designed the successful extension to 64 bit and Intel had to
follow. Most places called it amd64 at first and switched to x86_84 when it
became clear it was the de-facto standard.

> 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.

 Install the amd64 package it should work fine, it just has a
different name for the architecture.

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