The forked elephant in the room

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 15:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> 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:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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.

Does it really matter?