Windows API and druntime/Phobos

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 19:58:40 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:
> I don't think it makes sense in Druntime. It isn't required for 
> the compiler to work that I know of.

Underlying implementation of language features trickles down to 
using either the DMC runtime or Windows APIs. Druntime defines 
the Windows APIs locally where needed, which is a hack.

Example:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/dmain2.d#L31

> Also what is there currently isn't generating documentation.

This is not true: http://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread.html