Phobos 3 Development is Open!

[Adam Wilson]

On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 19:45:53 UTC, Greggor wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 15:55:52 UTC, Andrew wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 15:45:06 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8925/files#diff-647aa2ce9ebedd6759a2f1c55752f0279de8ae7ba55e3c270bd59e1f8c1a5162R131
>>>
>>> Why can't D have its own types?
>>
>> I have to agree with ryuukk_ on this one; it's one thing to 
>> maintain binary compatibility with C, and another to import 
>> and use C symbols all over the place in the standard library. 
>> I think that interfaces with C (or any other language) should 
>> be reduced to the minimum required to make something work, and 
>> nothing more. So, keep the usage of malloc/realloc/free to 
>> allocators and whatnot, and use fread/fwrite only in stdio.
>
> Absolutely agreed, I’d love to use Phobos in code targeting 
> smaller platforms that is not just desktop Linux, macOS, 
> windows or Bsd. Also being able to use smaller libc(s) where a 
> full glibc is not available would be really nice.

I am totally on board with this if the community thinks there are 
improvements to be had here. Head on over to the Design repo and 
you can either submit a PR to the design document, or start a 
discussion if there is disagreement on how to handle this.