The forked elephant in the room

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 14:27:18 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

>
> It's not full ImportC, but I remember Walter was talking about 
> adding C header translation to the compiler [well before 
> that](https://forum.dlang.org/post/p59jdq$2ttu$1@digitalmars.com), and apparently it was an old idea by then:
>

The idea of generating automatic bindings to declarations in 
header files may have been old, but the idea of compiling actual 
C programs appears to have come from Zig:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html