libc dependency

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 22:41 +0000, Honey via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> 
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> 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.

But there is lots of paid resource in the core Go community which makes
not using "middleware" feasible by providing your own. Also of course
the Go/C interface is not as clean as is the case in D, so the need for
Go-specific middleware is much, much higher. As D can call C linkage
libraries, and libc is a library for interfacing to OSes, use it, get
the abstraction, pay the (small) price, get someone else to do the
maintenance.

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