Note from a donor

[solidstate1991]

On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 13:37:09 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 24/10/2017 2:25 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 13:20:10 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>>> * better dll support for Windows.
>> 
>> This one is on a lot of wish lists.
>
> It definitely needs to be a target for 2018H1, I'll be making 
> sure its added! Too big a blocker and comes up a little too 
> often...

DIP45 has the solution (make export an attribute), it needs to be 
updated for the new DIP format from what I heard. It needs to be 
pushed, as Windows still the most popular OS on the consumer side 
of things, then we can have Phobos and DRuntime as DLLs without 
using experimental versions of DMD. I have some plans with the 
better DLL support, such as the possibility of a D based Python 
(for better class interoperability with D), or even using a 
modified set of D for scripting (eg. SafeD only).