On Sunday, 27 October 2013 at 11:49:38 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
If we want to mention shared library support in the release notes, I think we really ought to make clear (with a big red warning) that D doesn't make any guarantees about ABI stability right now.
Also, there is the big unresolved topic of symbol visibility, see e.g. http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP45 and the associated discussion.
I'm afraid we will repeat C++'s mistakes here and shoot ourselves in the foot big time if we keep symbols visible (i.e. exported from shared libraries) by default. The impact of that on (link time) optimization opportunities and, for big libraries, load times is absolutely non-negligible.
David
