Why is it that no one writes with portability in mind in druntime?

[Iain Buclaw]

On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 07:43:38 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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> Library maintainers need to stop writing code with the 
> assumption that their code is only going to be used with dmd 
> and x86, and they should have stopped doing it 6 months ago.

Aiming 'library maintainers' at the druntime/phobos folk.  
Because third party libraries are not a concern yet. ;)