The Future of D Runtime

[Denis Feklushkin]

On Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at 23:58:14 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:

> The most often given reason for keeping DRT as-is is that “we 
> only need to port DRT to a new platform, Phobos is platform 
> independent.” I submit that this is factually incorrect. There 
> are currently 31 files in Phobos with `version (WinXXXX)` 
> statements in them. 14 with `version (linux)`. And IIRC 
> everybody who has tried a port D to a new platform recently has 
> just not bothered to port Phobos at all.

By the way, I’ll answer as one of these persons: it will just be 
a waste of time!

Because how it need to be ported very much depends on the 
decision made about how we reorganize the druntime at first.