Tsoding streamed about D

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 17:16:07 UTC, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 17:06:11 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> On 28/03/2025 5:41 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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.

What he's pointing out is that importing the provided core 
modules is not 'on par' with importing the equivalent C header 
with a C compiler. Macro translated into functions on D side are 
missing.