Thoughts about D

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 06:12:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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!
>>>
>> 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.)

We could also convert that libc to D ;)
Seriously betterC mode would make that way easier and more fun, 
is it on GitHub?

Actually Herb Sutter shared once that Microsoft used C++ (as in 
templates C++) to reimplement a significant chunk of its libc 
with great success. Less code, less ifdef hell and macro abuse I 
think were presented as advantages.