On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 09:21:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
He did unfortunately manage to convince Atila, so the DIP has
been accepted, but based on the discussions, I think that you
may be the only person I've seen say anything positive about
the DIP treating extern(C) functions as @safe.
- Jonathan M Davis
I think Walter had to make a tough call with many tradeoffs. The
defining feature of engineering I would say.
Is he wrong? Maybe, I don't know. The obvious path is far from
always being a winner.
If it does come back to haunt him, he can always add a DIP to
make extern(!D) @system by default. It won't invalidate any work.
