The forked elephant in the room

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 01:59:47 UTC, max haughton wrote:

> So what dstep has been doing for years?

Not only that, but it does work well for that purpose, and it's 
baked into the compiler.

> The value of ImportC is in importing c, i.e. thats the thing 
> that the others can't do.

It works well for C code without a ton of dependencies. It can 
also be used to compile C functions that aren't exported from a 
library, or to modify parts of a C library without having to 
maintain your own fork.