On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:24:38 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:12:19 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/27/2017 9:11 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote:
Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it
converted to D!
We have discussed this on Discord a little bit lately.
What we are hoping for is a D dmc+libc updated to use dmd-be.
Potentially allowing us to use LLVM's linker but with dmc's
libc as well. Giving us out of the box experience for 64bit.
It would be nice, but well, your site would need a lot of
changes to go in this direction.
Yes, I've thought about making dmc++ 64 bit, but there'd be a
fair amount of work (mostly upgrading SNN to 64 bits.)
We could also convert that libc to D ;)
Seriously betterC mode would make that way easier and more fun,
is it on GitHub?
Actually Herb Sutter shared once that Microsoft used C++ (as in
templates C++) to reimplement a significant chunk of its libc
with great success. Less code, less ifdef hell and macro abuse
I think were presented as advantages.
Yes, the new MSVCRT.dll, is implemented in C++.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2014/06/10/the-great-c-runtime-crt-refactoring/
After Midori and Longhorn's failure, there has been a migration
effort to slowly get rid of C and focus on C++ for lower level
stuff and .NET Native for everything else, at least on what
concerns kernel, desktop and UWP.
