phobo's std.file is completely broke!

Vladimir Panteleev thecybershadow.lists at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 04:04:09 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 01:50:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> And at least for me, moving from Windows to Linux would have 
> been a LOT harder if it weren't for the OS abstractions that 
> are already in Phobos.

It's one thing to call unlink on POSIX and RemoveFileW on 
Windows. Another is adding a good deal of extra logic that 
performs additional OS calls and generates additional GC garbage 
to work around API problems even on systems that don't need it.



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