The CAPI Manifesto

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Oct 17 00:44:03 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-17 04:02, Walter Bright wrote:
> Brad and I were talking about some D code that needed openssl support,
> when we ran into the same old problem:
>
> No D files corresponding to the openssl C .h files.
>
> It's not that these are a big problem to create, it's just that they are
> not done, and it tends to turn off people from using D. D is binary API
> compatible with C, but only with a corresponding D import file. This,
> out of the box, makes D *harder* to use than C.

I'm working on a Clang based tool for automatically converting C header 
files to D modules.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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