On 5/20/13 9:49 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
Yes, if D aspires to be a systems programming language it can't keep relying on wrappers around C/C++ libraries (especially C++). In the long term, it should be D all the way down to the OS API.
You wrote this as if not using c and c++ libraries is a predicate for being a systems language. It's not.
What's with the D community's (yes, I'm over generalizing some) not-invented-here syndrome? Avoiding the incredible body of existing code out there that's accumulated over the decades is foolhardy and narrow sighted. Are all c and c++ libraries great bodies of code, absolutely not. Is some of the code that predates D worth reusing, yup.
Sigh, Brad
