D is our last hope

[Walter Bright]

On 12/19/2023 1:52 PM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> I still say the best thing to do is to ditch the overloading of the `import` 
> keyword and instead embrace the `mixin` keyword.
> 
> mixin[C](`#include<stdio.h>`);
> 
> you can now use the full file name, with .h or .c or whatever you want. And you 
> can do this in context of D, meaning you can do things like :
> 
> @nogc {
>     mixin[C](`#include<stdio.h>`);
> }
> 
> 
> And potentially use macros:
> 
> enum C_Context = mixin[C](`#define foo bar`);
> mixin[C, C_Context](`use foo here`);
> 
> or something like that.

Programming with multiple languages is complicated, and it can work if the 
import mechanism gets to say what language the imported file is in.

I really like making things as simple as possible, and having them "just work". 
It's hard to beat:

     import whatever;

and not having file.d, file.c, and file.h in the same directory. Then life gets 
a lot simpler. After all, D was designed with the notion of package.module 
mapping directly onto directory/file. That inevitably results with some 
compromises on the names of the directories and files, etc., but it is worth it 
for the vast simplification of a 1:1 mapping.