Tsoding streamed about D

[Derek Fawcus]

On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 17:06:11 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 5:41 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 14:06:43 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> 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.

Isn't it just his particular thing to wind folks up?

In experimenting with betterC, I went in eyes open, rather 
expecting to have little or no support from the standard library 
(other than the bits under core.stdc, even if them).

Even then I came across bits where I concluded I had to manually 
access stuff via C, and then had to battle things - some of the 
stdargs/varargs bits I ran in to.