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[Imperatorn]

On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:11:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/5/2021 10:36 AM, ag0aep6g wrote:
>> it's also true that Walter prioritizes new features instead 
>> (ImportC is the latest fad)
>
> ImportC resolves a long standing serious issue where multiple 
> other substantial attempts at solving it have fallen short over 
> the years. Unfortunately, ImportC is useless if it only half 
> works. It has to work with existing C headers, which is why I'm 
> concentrating on it to get to that point. Lack of ImportC has 
> wasted a *lot* of developer time, making it a high leverage 
> investment of time.
>
> Just think of all the time lost doing manual conversion of .h 
> files, and then doing them again and again as they evolve. Then 
> not one, not two, but *three* different automated programs were 
> developed to try and resolve this (one of which I wrote). Then 
> think of all the projects *not* done because of the barrier of 
> trying to deal with several thousand lines of .h files.
>
> The Diemos project was an effort to crowdsource conversion of 
> .h files to D, but it just was not adequate.
>
> In summary, ImportC is totally worth the effort. I should have 
> done it 15 years ago.

Agreed. I'm eager to try ImportC in it's full glory when it 
arrives :)

And when it's "complete" it would be cool to integrate it even 
further. Maybe some stuff could be automated for example or even 
be done at design time 😍