Thoughts about D

[Walter Bright]

On 11/27/2017 9:11 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 28/11/2017 5:03 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/27/2017 6:55 PM, John wrote:
>>> Should add optlink to that list, would love to see it converted to D!
>>
>> So would I, but there's no chance of that (unless someone else wants to pick 
>> up that flag). Years ago, I attempted to convert it to C. It was possible, but 
>> an agonizingly slow process. The worst problem was the complete lack of a test 
>> suite for optlink, so there was no reasonable way to know if I broke it or not.
> 
> 
> We have discussed this on Discord a little bit lately.
> What we are hoping for is a D dmc+libc updated to use dmd-be. Potentially 
> allowing us to use LLVM's linker but with dmc's libc as well. Giving us out of 
> the box experience for 64bit.
> 
> It would be nice, but well, your site would need a lot of changes to go in this 
> direction.

Yes, I've thought about making dmc++ 64 bit, but there'd be a fair amount of 
work (mostly upgrading SNN to 64 bits.)