Linker-hacking out the D runtime

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On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 02:37:22 UTC, Mike wrote:
> I abandoned D sometime ago largely because of 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758 (but there were 
> other reasons), so your blog post is interesting to me.  It is 
> unfortunate that we have to resort to such hackery, but its 
> nice to have such tools at our disposal regardless.

Yeah, the TypeInfo spam is the biggest pain point.

> I proposed another idea for giving users more control over D 
> Runtime by moving runtime hook definitions to .di header files.
>  If you're interested, you can read about it here:  
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/psssnzurlzeqeneagora@forum.dlang.org.
>  I'd much rather have something like that over a -betterC; you 
> can read more about some disadvantages to expanding on -betterC 
> (e.g. removing RTTI) here: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/nevipjrkdqxivoerftlw@forum.dlang.org.

I think D can still be very usable without TypeInfo (especially 
if the unnecessary language dependence on it improves).

But I'm also wary of "solving" the problem with a hundred 
compiler flags and causing fragmentation.

> Anyway, thanks for the post; it's given me a few ideas.

Thanks for letting me know.  I wasn't totally sure anyone would 
be interested in that hack.