Re-thinking D's modules

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 09:25:03 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> For those that don't know .NET, due to the DLL Hell 
>> experience, Microsoft
>> has built version support in the CLR from day 1.
>
> But, as ever, Microsoft see things like this as a way to try 
> and get
> everyone to use Windows via proprietary lock-in rather than by 
> trying to
> educate people about possible solutions.

AFAIK MS tried to use java, but they wasn't allowed to do it. 
They had to invent a completely alternative solution. And .net is 
a possible solution, and MS educates people about it.

Also versioning of components is done by COM for ages, though the 
application has to be designed and written with COM in mind. 
Components don't even have to be implemented in the same language 
nor reside in the same process, nor on the same machine.