ImportC and #pragma pack

[Kenneth Dallmann]

On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 at 06:05:04 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22315
>
> I'm on the fence about implementing this. On the one hand, I 
> can do it and make it work. On the other hand, the C11 way is 
> to use _Alignas, and that's 10 years old now. How far do we go 
> with implementing all the nutburger obsolete C extension cruft 
> out there?



  I believe I know why you are on the fence about it, and I feel 
the same.
My concept would be simply to make D its own language, the more 
unneccessary  stuff
is added the more complicated and disorienting it can be to users.

My point of view is, so long as the compiler can use C code with 
all its features then
there is no point in making a D version of the features that 
aren't important.

Simplicity is beautiful.

Thank you