On Friday, August 24, 2018 7:46:57 AM MDT Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:21:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > I think that you're crazy. > > No, I just see more potential in D than you do.
To be clear, I'm not calling you crazy in general. I'm calling the idea of bypassing libc to call syscalls directly under any kind of normal circumstances crazy. There is tons of work to be done around here to improve D, and IMHO, reimplementing OS functions just because they're written in C is a total waste of time and an invitation for bugs - in addition to making the druntime code that much less portable, since it bypasses the API layer that was standardized for POSIX systems. It's the kind of thing that's going to cause us way more work, more bugs, and make us that much less compatible with existing libraries. And for what? To _maybe_ get slightly better performance (which you probably won't get)? I honestly think that trying to bypass libc to talk to the kernel directly is actively worse than just using libc much as it would be great if we somehow lived in a world where every library we used was written in D. But the reality of the matter is that there is a _lot_ out there already written in C where it simply makes no sense to try to replace it. We're always going to need to interoperate with C unless we somehow convince all of the C developers to at least switch to -betterC (which obviously isn't happening). - Jonathan M Davis
