Thoughts about D

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:11:25 UTC, 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.

That would be great! So much easier to get nontechnical users 
(biologists) to an easy out of the box experience that can scale 
to their needs.