DMD workforce contribution

[Don]

On 08.11.2011 10:40, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>> I think that a programming language that declares itself as a "System Language" should be able to build and use native shared libraries.
>
> You're completely right. Just as D supports extern(C) to support
> C-function, it should support C-libraries. But this doesn't mean, that
> this is the way it should work always.
> At the end, all shared libraries are always usable, because they need
> a C API and D can interface with C APIs. There can even be neat
> high-level wrappers around those APIs to ease the access to C shared
> libraries.
> But I think encouraging programmers to wrote _new_ libraries in _D_
> using those shared library formats is a bad idea. Too many
> workarounds, too much danger.
>
>> There is the DDL project with that approach: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/wiki
>
> I knew about DDL a long time ago. But it's D1 only and doesn't seem to
> be willing to add D2 support. If and when it supports D2, I'll take a
> look at it, test it for various traits and if it passes the tests I'll
> make a pull request to add it to Phobos.

Last serious update seems to be 4 years ago. D2 barely existed back then.