On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:11:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
ImportC resolves a long standing serious issue where multiple
other substantial attempts at solving it have fallen short over
the years. Unfortunately, ImportC is useless if it only half
works. It has to work with existing C headers, which is why I'm
concentrating on it to get to that point. Lack of ImportC has
wasted a *lot* of developer time, making it a high leverage
investment of time.
[...]
Meanwhile @live is in the language, and it's half-baked. Then
there's preview switches that will linger on into perpetuity;
DIPs' implementations that haven't been finished.