Iain Buclaw

> > Which I could infer to mean that nobody can be using complex types in D if there's this many problems with them. > > Present in 7 commercial...

Rebased, I'll write up a changelog and bring this out of draft phase when #12390 is done.

> I don't really understand the point of this. Once we're deprecating imaginary / complex, we wait the 10 releases, then remove them. So why an extra `-preview` ? Allows...

Rebased, let's see where we're at.

Original implementation using `-preview=` has now been replaced with Editions. FYI @dkorpel

> > I also notice that there is no endianness defined, nor any conversion to/from native endianness being performed. That is important if we should expect these archives to be...

> > > I also notice that there is no endianness defined, nor any conversion to/from native endianness being performed. That is important if we should expect these archives to...

> To be fair, no other compiler does this so we're going to struggle for comparisons. > I wonder why the three languages I've listed (C++20/Go/Rust) reached more or less...

> > I wonder why the three languages I've listed (C++20/Go/Rust) reached more or less the same conclusion with their package archives (exports) then. :-) > > As I mentioned...

> > Why is PCH repeatedly being mentioned? > > They're the same idea as the other things you mentioned. It really isn't. All formats I've mentioned are export archives...