D is dead

[Mike Franklin]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 22:52:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

> I really don't want to see dlang have to maintain posix system 
> calls on all supported OSes when that's already being done for 
> us.
>
> Windows makes this simpler -- the system calls are separate 
> from the C runtime. It would be nice if Posix systems were that 
> way, but it's both silly to reinvent the system calls (they are 
> on every OS anyways, and in shared-library form), and a 
> maintenance nightmare.

Keep in mind that we only need to implement the system calls that 
we need.  I haven't looked into Phobos, and probably never will.  
My interest is mostly in druntime.  At this time, I think we only 
need 2:  `sbrk` and `mmap` for `malloc`. I don't consider that 
much of a maintenance burden, and `malloc` and friends are my 
least concern at the moment.

We're disproportionately leveraging libc in druntime; there are 
only a few things needed from libc for druntime, and I think I 
can demonstrate benefit writing them in D (or if someone else 
wants to, please do, I may never even get to it).

If I even stick around in the D community long enough to pursue 
this, this change it'll be incremental and I'll demonstrate 
benefit each step of the way.

Mike