D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

GrimMaple grimmaple95 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 11:56:40 UTC 2023


On Monday, 3 July 2023 at 11:50:32 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:

> Recently translated miniz (a zlib replacement) from C to D and 
> Dennis' ctod didn't make it through the unbelievable macros, 
> and it was a drag to expand the macros by hand.
> I will very probably use ImportC when it can find the 
> preprocessor on Windows, which has been a blocker here. So many 
> codebases have been translated from C to D it can be indeed 
> valuable. Moreover ImportC is also a fast C compiler so it can 
> eventually help build times of D projects by rewriting in C :)

So to help projects in D you should re-write them in C? Huge W 
for the language, GG. Big confidence boost!


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