On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 05:11:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>On 5/16/2022 2:52 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>I don't understand where this is going at all. At first, I thought that this was able being able to import c (as the name would suggest), which seems super useful, but now it seems to be evolving into a full blow C compiler and I have no idea why I would want that. I already have several on my machine, and they are extremely high quality.
People can and do put the full C language into .h files (for example, functions that are expected to be inlined).
Yeah, header-only libraries are very popular among users, since it helps keep binary sizes under control, so authors shove as much of the functionality as possible into the header files