On 2017-06-20 09:48, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
But there is lots of paid resource in the core Go community which makes not using "middleware" feasible by providing your own. Also of course the Go/C interface is not as clean as is the case in D, so the need for Go-specific middleware is much, much higher. As D can call C linkage libraries, and libc is a library for interfacing to OSes, use it, get the abstraction, pay the (small) price, get someone else to do the maintenance.
Yes. But it would be nice to not be dependent on glibc. If we could use musl it would be a lot easier to create our own tool chain (and get full support for static liking). Avoiding the need to download the C tool chain to be able to use D. I've heard that many times, especially on macOS: "oh, you need to download Xcode to use D?".
-- /Jacob Carlborg
