C++ launched its community survey, too

Tue Feb 27 21:44:45 UTC 2018

On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 21:07:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Granted, though, this is a lot easier than having to write JNI 
> wrappers or (carefully!) translate C headers into D.  It would 
> be nice if you could actually just copy-n-paste a C header into 
> an extern(C) block in D and have it Just Work(tm), but 
> practically all C headers are dependent on macros one way or 
> another that it would require including an entire C processor 
> inside the D compiler, which is not exactly an inviting 
> proposition.

Walter has said that he has considered doing that now that DMC is 
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