<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 21:25, jmh530 via Digitalmars-d <<a href="mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com">digitalmars-d@puremagic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 07:54:43 UTC, Meta wrote:<br>
> On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 07:17:37 UTC, Manu wrote:<br>
>> [...]<br>
><br>
> Just from this video alone, I completely agree with you.<br>
><br>
> To Walter: whatever technical reasons you might have for not <br>
> accepting .h files, I recommend you watch the video for 10 <br>
> minutes or so, starting at this timestamp:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://youtu.be/Gj5310KnUTQ?si=ObpRmsHQO96oCpO8&t=55m27s" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Gj5310KnUTQ?si=ObpRmsHQO96oCpO8&t=55m27s</a><br>
><br>
> This shows you how close D is to really blowing people away <br>
> with ImportC, and how much friction is introduced by not <br>
> allowing .h files. From a marketing/first impressions <br>
> perspective, it's a no brainer in my opinion.<br>
><br>
> The "wow!" factor of being able to download a big, well-known C <br>
> library like Raylib and simply do `import raylib` (plus linker <br>
> flags) and start using it in your D code is huge.<br>
<br>
I don’t think Walter was the bottleneck on the .h .c issue. The <br>
problem was that it was breaking code in the other compilers.<br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">How so? I don't remember anything on that matter.</div></div>