The CAPI Manifesto

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Oct 16 21:28:06 PDT 2011


On 10/16/2011 9:02 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Is this repo intended for use by users or library writers?

Both.

> I don't
> think encouraging writing C-style code in D is a good idea, that's why
> I'm asking.

D's ability to directly call any C code is a huge advantage, but one we've 
underutilized because of a lack of interface imports to the great mass of 
popular C libraries.

For example, are we going to reinvent openssl? libcurl? imagemajick? No way.



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