2008/5/20 Ben Burdette :

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> Travis Tabbal wrote:

> C++ is difficult to link against, so that limits the languages that you can

> use for development.  For instance, D has a hard time with linking to C++

> (or did last I checked).  C, on the other hand is far simpler to link to.

>  That's why many standard APIs use C interfaces - OpenGL for instance.

Recent versions of dmd can link against C++ code compiled with dmc,

but it's a bit unreliable, from what I've heard. And D has *extremely

good* support for linking with C++, compared with other languages.
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