On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 13:12:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
To coincide with the improvements to -betterC in the upcoming
DMD 2.076, Walter has published a new article on the D blog
about what it is and why to use it. A fun read. And I'm
personally happy to see the love this feature is getting. I
have a project I'd like to use it with if I can ever make the
time for it!
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6viswu/d_as_a_better_c/
Interesting article, though one thing that I'm confused by is
Hence D libraries remain inaccessible to C programs, and
chimera programs (a mix of C and D) are not practical. One
cannot pragmatically “try out” D by add D modules to an
existing C program.
I've been mixing C and full D for a while now (on Linux) by
either having the main C program call rt_init/rt_term directly
(if druntime is linked in when building a mixed C/D application),
or have Runtime.initialize/Runtime.terminate be called from D via
some plugin_load/plugin_unload functionality when using D shared
libraries.
Why is this not considered practical?
