<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Yes it is a lot of work, which I strongly suspect is a big reason why C still reigns supreme at the systems level — because it does have a stable ABI which solves a lot of headaches from a systems point of view (obviously momentum and history are also very big reasons).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">If that’s the direction D wants to go in, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it needs to be setting the correct expectations for users. Not having a stable ABI is perfectly fine for application level stuff, but it can be rather (in some cases extremely) problematic for systems level stuff--that needs to be understood both by the users and the people working on D (and I haven’t really seen much recognition of it).</div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On May 25, 2017 at 10:25:59 AM, Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d (<a href="mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com">digitalmars-d@puremagic.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>On Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 15:02:00 UTC, Jason King wrote:
<br>> That’s a fairly important requirement if it’s supposed to be a
<br>> systems programming language, less so for application focused
<br>> stuff. I would hope it’s at least an eventual goal even if
<br>> it’s not quite the case today.
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<br>The reason we don't have ABI compatibility is the same reason
<br>neither Rust or Go does, it's a lot of work for a minority of
<br>users and it stops the language from progressing.
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<br>Maybe D will have it eventually due to pressure from large D
<br>using companies, but I highly doubt it.
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