Why is D unpopular?

[Adam Ruppe]

On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 18:10:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> It's not just manifest constants. There's also macro functions 
> that sometimes crop up in complex C headers. Those are hard to 
> automatically translate; some cases may need inline functions, 
> some involve token-pasting and may not be translatable without 
> human intervention.

importC's advantage is that they don't have to be translated. If 
you can mixin some C code, you can do the macro expansion there 
and then merge the ASTs, without losing the hygeine of the D code.

If this gets implemented - and Max took a few steps toward it 
recently - we might actually exceed dstep in some cases. (You'd 
still have to express it in the right way but still)