DIP 1024---Shared Atomics---Final Review

[Walter Bright]

On 12/10/2019 7:55 AM, IGotD- wrote:
> This is a problem with that OS dependent libraries aren't separated from OS 
> independent libraries. In the future the atomic library should be in an OS 
> independent part of the core library while those that depends on an underlying 
> OS should be in their own. In all we need a finer granularity of the standard 
> library depending on what the library depends on. Future DIP needed for this.


The idea of betterC is to not rely on ANY D libraries. As soon as we say "to use 
betterC you'll need to download and install these D libraries" it's dead in the 
water.

If you use shared language operators in betterC you're just as hosed as using 
them in D. You'll need library code to do it, and you can use any C library that 
offers atomic ops to do it.