On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 21:32:22 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
"bearophile" <[email protected]> wrote:
Walter Bright:
1. elevate c_long and c_ulong into full fledged types.
This looks like the simpler and cleaner solution. What are the
disadvantages of this solution?
(In my opinion the C++ interop topic is way less
important/urgent than
designing and implementing the tracking/scoping of memory
areas in D. So
I am seeing a priority problem here).
Bye,
bearophile
C++ interoperability: 1,000,000 merit points
Anything related to the GC: 999,999 merit points
All else: two digits merit points
Not to go too far off topic, but C++ interoperability is at 0
merit points until you've got a GC-less standard library,
finished shared library support on all platforms, and tools that
rival those available for C++.
Clearly Walter and everyone should work on whatever they think is
important. I hope your statement doesn't imply that all
development effort is going to be put into C++ compatibility.
