On 27 Oct 2015, at 23:45, Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals wrote:
I'd very much want to get Walter's 100% approval on this. We seem to have a growing complexity problem in that overly complicated solutions are being pushed that nobody but their author understands and reviews properly. They don't get enough review and change the language in intractable ways.
I'd claim that this change does exactly the opposite; making the language less complex by fixing inscrutable semantics. There might be simpler ways to fix the issue (see previous PRs), but you guys (probably mostly Walter) didn't like them because of its "breaking" nature (even though some of those broken pieces of code were questionable to begin with).
Awesome. BTW what's the status of dynamic libraries on the three major OSs? I'm sorry, that topic has been out of my mind for a while so I lost contact with the matters.
DMD supports them on Linux and FreeBSD, LDC currently on Linux only (as the most recent release is based 2.067 still), and GDC doers not support them properly at all. As for Windows, I suppose it depends on who you ask, but DLLs definitely don't work as seamlessly as on the Posixen (cf. the export discussion).
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