Bill Baxter wrote:
Excellent talk! Now I finally understand what the buzz about DDL is about. My vague understanding was that it was basically a workaround for current D compilers support of dynamic libs. So I was content to just wait for D to get the kinks worked out eventually. But from your talk it seems much more like DDL is a better long term solution for dynamic linking of D code regardless.
Thanks! DDL is indeed something more :) In case of Windows, the issue is actually with DLLs, so no matter how awesome D's support of these gets, they still won't provide all that DDL can. I'm not yet sure to what extent SO could be abused to do what DDL does, but it would probably need some crazy runtime- and kernel-level programming skillz ;) Anyway, I believe that this is just the beginning of what DDL might be able to provide. Once it matures, we'll probably see more cool stuff done with it - perhaps having the same code/plugin run on multiple OSes as long as the processor architecture is the same?
-- Tomasz Stachowiak http://h3.team0xf.com/ h3/h3r3tic on #D freenode
