Andrei's Google Talk

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Unfortunately, having to use dmc for C or C++ in order to link it with D code in 
> Windows would make D a non-starter for any project that couldn't be in pure D 
> where I work. Most of our stuff is cross-platform between Linux and Windows, 
> using gcc on Linux and Visual Studio on Windows, and I don't think that there's 
> any hope of getting anyone to switch to using dmc. If D code could be linked 
> with code generated by Microsoft's compiler, then I'd have a much better chance 
> of getting folks where I work to use D. As it is, it would have to be for 
> standalone projects only, and most of our projects aren't standalone.

I hadn't realized that was a barrier.