[SAOC 2023] C++ STL INTEROP - WEEKLY UPDATE #3

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 6 October 2023 at 20:28:54 UTC, Emmanuel Danso Nyarko 
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> It has been an exciting week researching through druntime. 
> There is a proposed major lifting of C++ STL interop into it's 
> own project which is currently undergoing tests. Currently, C++ 
> STL interop is in the core.stdcpp package in druntime which 
> faces the limitation of being tied to a certain runtime as 
> supported by druntime. So we have to separate the template 
> library(interop) from the druntime library. It's an important 
> factor to consider as we want to support multiple platforms.
>
> Currently, std::vector has bindings for only 
> CppRuntime_Microsoft. Linux and MacOs platforms are not yet 
> supported. Work will now be geared towards making it work with 
> gcc and clang compiled binaries on linux and Mac.

Thanks for working on this