The Future of D Runtime

[max haughton]

On Thursday, 6 June 2024 at 18:00:56 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at 23:58:14 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
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> I think DRT only needs to concern itself with supporting 
> language features. Anything else needs to go elsewhere.

I agree. If nothing else because you can start a new phobos 
yesterday whereas making changes to druntime has all kinds of 
other high-dimensional treadeoffs to faff around with e.g. the 
druntime a user actually gets is already often slightly forked in 
that it's often not from dmd.

The way to get a stable foundation that can be ported easily to 
the likes of wasm and so on is not making druntime bigger. You 
end up with a good result by doing so but it would be like taking 
a shortcut through a maze rather than the road - fragile.