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[Mike Franklin]

On Saturday, 4 August 2018 at 09:43:13 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 August 2018 at 02:39:23 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
>>
>> Cool! Can we now deprecate and eventually jettison C/C++ 
>> bindings from druntime, please?
>
> Why?

The C standard library not a true and intrinsic dependency of D, 
and is outside of D's charter.  There are druntime 
implementations that leverage the C standard library, but I 
believe that was largely done for expediency.  If one wants to 
leverage the C standard library for a certain druntime 
implementation, that's fine, but it should be privately imported.

D is a much more capable programming language than C, and 
whatever functionality is being imported from the C standard 
library can be better implemented in D with compile-time 
optimizations via templates, memory safety, and other benefits.

Mike