Tsoding streamed about D

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 28/03/2025 5:41 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 14:06:43 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> On 28/03/2025 2:58 AM, Mike Shah wrote:
>>> betterC if I recall/inferred was somewhat a marketing term for the 
>>> flag. '-no-runtime' is essentially what it does and indeed probably a 
>>> better name.
>>
>> To be more exact, it is a marketing term for a collection of switches, 
>> only one of which is turning off linking against druntime.
>>
>> I am very cautious and rather unhappy at the connection people are 
>> drawing between the two. The distinction matters and would only cause 
>> pain to conflate, should any alterations were to be made.
> 
> The spec for betterC (https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html) starts off by 
> saying that it doesn't depend on the D runtime library, only the C one.
> 
> So perhaps there is a way to make it clearer about what the purpose/ 
> motivation is and what exactly it is doing?

I'm inclined to suggest that we need a giant red warning on that page 
basically stating that not linking against druntime has intended 
implications that will result in loss of polish for the language.