Warning, ABI breakage from 2.074 to 2.075
Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 25 10:10:01 PDT 2017
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 17:04:10 UTC, Jason King wrote:
> And how many of those are claiming to be a systems programming
> language?
>
> I have no problems with an unstable ABI, what I have a problem
> is with
> claiming to be a systems programming language AND not having a
> stable ABI.
> You realistically cannot have both — it seems like D is trying
> to have it’s
> cake and eat it too and I’m just pointing out that it’s going
> to lead to
> sadness. If there are no plans to ever have a stable ABI,
> that’s fine (may
> even be good for the long term usage of the language), just
> drop the whole
> systems programming language bit and focus more on application
> level, but
> I’ve not really seen any recognition of that.
>
From that point of view, C++ and Ada aren't system programming
languages.
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