Generality creep

Mike Franklin slavo5150 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 29 01:06:42 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 18:47:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> Oh, and druntime must go.
>
> The whole distinction between the runtime library and the 
> standard library is clowny and has more to do with poorly 
> ported tradition from other languages, than with anything else.
>
> We need one standard library that is entirely pay-as-you-go 
> (e.g. empty main() means no library file is ever needed for 
> linking) and that offers an opt-in continuum.

yes, Yes, YES!  Now that's a vision I can get behind.  Time to 
start dusting off my DMD and druntime forks.  I'm in.

Mike


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