A D library with absolutely no dependencies intended for boostrapping the D compiler, D runtime, and other libraries or for bare-metal systems programming.
I'm still working out the precise vision for this library, so bear with me as I will likely change my mind often until something concrete emerges.
- No dependencies whatsoever.
- No dynamic heap memory allocation. Dynamic stack memory allocation is ok, but could probably be avoided too.
- All code must be
@safe,nothrow,@nogc, and compilable with-dip1000.
I am much too busy trying to fix problems with the D compiler and I'm not going to be able to work on this much in the near future. If you like the general idea of this library, please help. Also, I don't have much experience with Phobos, so I will need help choosing what to take from existing D implementations and what to leave.
We need to set up a CI that can test pull requests, verify coverage, documentation, etc... across multiple platforms and architecture. That would accelerate any future progress and is considered the highest priority right now.
Many implementations will eventually be lowered to a few basic software building blocks that copy or compare memory. Therefore it would be great to have such low-level software building blocks in this library as long as they adhere to The Rules. Candidates include memcpy, memset, and memcmp. Beware, though. This is D; not C. We want idiomatic D implementations that leverage the power of D's excellent design by introspections capabilities. See memcpyD for a proof of concept.
This library could reasonably take quite a few implementations from phobos and druntime (e.g. std.meta, std.traits, and much more) as long as they adhere to The Rules, but I want to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Therefore, I prefer only copying over those implementations that are considered high quality right now.