The CAPI Manifesto

[Nick Sabalausky]

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> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:32:17 +0300, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Translating C header
>> files to D is a pain and time consuming, and it would benefit us all to 
>> have a
>> place to go to find common C headers translated to D so that such work 
>> doesn't
>> have to be duplicated.
>
> With the second compiler, there won't be any need for us to do anything, 
> like C++ we could use C libraries seamlessly.

The only reason C++ is able to do that is because C++ (realistically, even 
if not *technically*) is a proper superset of C. D isn't.