Am Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:46:49 +0100 schrieb Trass3r <u...@known.com>: > > But things like shared libraries that will become necessary once it > > becomes mainstream. Lack of shared library support is one of the > > barriers to it becoming mainstream (among many other things). > > Support for that is almost ready even in dmd. > You were talking about making phobos shared and that's a different > thing. >
There's probably no need to make phobos shared by default, but it should be supported. IIRC a shared runtime is necessary for dynamically loaded D plugins, plugins written in D to be used in C apps and similar stuff. > >> I rather have a slightly bigger executable than having my system > >> cluttered with hundreds of phobos versions I don't need. > > > > Um, that's what you use a package manager for... > > I didn't say anything about management. > > > >> And you should keep in mind that dmd's phobos is currently 17MB, > >> gdc's is 25+5.5. Plus most apps only use a small share of that. > >> > >> Making druntime shared sometime is ok I think, but it's just not > >> ready yet. See the recent associative arrays dilemma. And the > >> crappy GC. > > > > It's strange, I noticed one thing about the D forums, and that is > > people keep complaining about this problem and that problem, this > > lack and that lack, and it seems very few are willing to actually > > do something about it. > > I wasn't complaining, I was stating that even druntime is far from > being stable.
