ImportC's progress

[Walter Bright]

On 4/29/2022 10:20 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 16:55:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> ImportC is only a few months old.
> 
> Oh how the time flies. It is actually about a full year old.
> 
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/s79ib1$1122$1@digitalmars.com
> 
> Announced on May 09, 2021. I assume you were working on it for a little while 
> before that, so probably over a year, but still, definitely more than "a few 
> months".

I thought I'd done that last August, not May.


> And what did I say at the time? That the preprocessor question needs attention 
> (still no solution today)

There is a solution,

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13955


> and, I quote: "There'd still the all the little 
> details that need to be done and the inevitable flurry of bugs. I'd be surprised 
> if this is legitimately usable by the end of the year."

It's still got bugs, but it is usable, particularly if your code avoids C 
extensions.