On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 01:48:24 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 10/19/2021 6:35 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
I think @live is a dead end and any further work on it is
probably wasted unless the code is reusable for some other
feature. Ownership is a property of values, not of functions
operating on those values. In particular, prioritizing ImportC
over @live is the right call. ImportC is high-impact and
Walter has a lot of relevant expertise.
Timon and I famously disagree over the concept behind @live.
Nevertheless, we do agree that ImportC is more important.
Iain and I have decided that changing the build process so that
Phobos' zlib code is built with dmd rather than gcc is going to
be our goalpost for declaring ImportC ready to use.
Why is compiling zlib a goalpost for *Import*C? Hopefully that
doesn't make it "finished, because that goalpost has almost no
effect on the issues actually plaguing C interop at the moment -
i.e. the preprocessor.
