The forked elephant in the room

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 15:36:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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> There were discussions about the possibility of dmd compiling C 
> code several years ago. My search attempts keep turning up way 
> too many pages, but this is an old idea in the D community.

Okay, here's an early discussion. Not exactly the same, but in 
the ballpark:

https://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/22625.html

> At first pass, I would assume that the C source would be passed 
> without modification into the system's C compiler; the D 
> compiler would then automatically link the C compiler's .o file 
> with the D compiler's .o file.