libc dependency

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On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 21:35:56 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> It does, but it depends on what you want to replace. What 
> specifically are you looking for?

I might need a fast variant of memcmp. Writing it in D seems to 
be the natural choice. I see no reason why it should be slower 
than other well optimized C implementations. It will probably be 
faster than implementations in not so much tuned standard C 
libraries.

Actually replacing memcmp does not seem worth the effort. 
However, I was wondering whether D could and should be used to 
replace more C 'legacy' - for fun and profit. ;-)


> IIRC, Tango did not depend on libc at all. It only used system 
> calls. So it certainly is possible.

I heard that Go's standard library is based on a similar approach.

Not depending on libc at all might serve as a marketing 
instrument as well.