On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 07:54:43 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 07:17:37 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Just from this video alone, I completely agree with you.
>
> To Walter: whatever technical reasons you might have for not
> accepting .h files, I recommend you watch the video for 10
> minutes or so, starting at this timestamp:
>
> https://youtu.be/Gj5310KnUTQ?si=ObpRmsHQO96oCpO8&t=55m27s
>
> This shows you how close D is to really blowing people away
> with ImportC, and how much friction is introduced by not
> allowing .h files. From a marketing/first impressions
> perspective, it's a no brainer in my opinion.
>
> The "wow!" factor of being able to download a big, well-known C
> library like Raylib and simply do `import raylib` (plus linker
> flags) and start using it in your D code is huge.

I don’t think Walter was the bottleneck on the .h .c issue. The
problem was that it was breaking code in the other compilers.