druntime redesign

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 at 07:54:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2020-05-02 22:24, IGotD- wrote:
>
>> Some OSes don't support everything like memory mapped files 
>> and we should support this possibility as well.
>
> Yes, I noticed this the hard way when I added support for iOS. 
> It was assumed to be Posix compatible but there are a couple of 
> edge cases where some system calls are not available.
>

POSIX has kind of lost relevance, hence why Microsoft went with 
Linux for their new new POSIX subsystem.

"POSIX Has Become Outdated"

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf