The forked elephant in the room

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 15:44:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 15:36:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>

And here's the earliest discussion of an ImportC-style thing that 
I can find (2006):

https://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/35483.html

> Why not enable dmd to "import" C header files directly?

One of the commenters listed this as a point against:

> 2. Writers of other D compilers will feel compelled to build in 
> a C compiler so that they can compile such projects.