OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Yigal Chripun]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> oh, I forgot my last point:
>> for C link-time compatibility you need to be able to _read_ C object
>> files and link them to your executable. you gain little from the ability
>> to _write_ object files.
> 
> You can transitivity.  Two compilers for different languages that both
> produce C object files can link to each other; two compiler that can
> only read C object files cannot.

good point.

> 
>> if you want to do a reverse integration (use D code in your C project)
>> you can and IMO should have created a library anyway instead of using
>> object files and the compiler should allow this as a separate option via
>> a flag, e.g. --make-so or whatever
> 
> If you can read and write compatible library files, you don't need to
> read or write compatible object files, since library files can take the
> place of object files.
> 
> 

that's even better. just allow 2-way usage of C libs and that's it. no 
need to support the C object file formats directly.