WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 23:11:35 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 24 November 2012 23:36, Vladimir Panteleev
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 18:49:02 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> Hear hear! I agree, it should just be cloned verbatim.
>>> I for one have 15+ years of expectation about WINAPI, I don't 
>>> want to look
>>> in any manual/reference to relearn how to use it again.
>>>
>>
>> This sentiment is overexaggerated and unhelpful. Please 
>> provide an example
>> of what sorts of "relearning" you'd have to do.
>>
>
> I'm simply stating my sentiment that ANY change to WIN32 is a 
> very very bad idea.

Reasoning in absolutes is not constructive.

> It invalidates existing code, and existing learning/reference 
> material.

Please provide a concrete example.

> Not to mention how many programmers don't even know what 
> unicode is (ie, the A/W alias argument).

I don't understand how this is relevant to this discussion.

> 'Relearning' in this instance might refer to 
> learning/remembering what
> changes have been made.

Part of the goal is to minimize required changes in correct code. 
Even in those cases (assuming they will even exist), the compiler 
will produce a helpful error message (e.g expected type void*, 
got HGLOBAL). The code can be easily fixed in a 
backwards-compatible way by adding a cast.