The future of Int128 support in D language

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 21:04:06 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 17:26:58 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I'm going to be the party pooper but this is completely and 
>> 100% useless work. It's not a dunk on you and your work, more 
>> on all the decision that preceeds it that lead to you even 
>> attempting to do this.
>>
>> [...]
>
> You could help us revive this PR then. ;-)
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6743
>
> Most of it would just be slowly adding the explicit 
> construction to the code base as a "refactor" before 
> introducing the double-int type proper.
>
> Another attempt at salvaging the original work
>
> https://github.com/ibuclaw/dmd/tree/ctinteger

It seems to me like simple refactors like 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/b4930f9e52b8f4dd18d61b1a6a47dc90e1d651ae could go in right away.