wrap/unwrap vs Go-style duck typing

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, October 26, 2013 08:09:13 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Also, is it correct that Linux dynamic library support is really
> starting with this release? There was some before but not quite usable.

It was there in 2.063, but we explicitly decided not to announce it due to how 
alpha it was. So, it makes some sense to say that it's new in this release, 
though I don't know how ready it is even now. I haven't been paying a lot of 
attention, but it's my impression from what I've read that it still needs a 
lot of work. I expect that it's plenty ready for folks to play around with, 
but if it's anyone's expectation that it's finished as-is, then I expect that 
they'll be in for a rude surprise, and I don't know how many of those changes 
risk being non-backwards compatible. Martin would really be the one to ask 
about all that though, since he's the one doing most of the work. But we are 
getting there, regardless of whether it's really ready yet in this release or 
not.

- Jonathan M Davis