10 Years of Derelict

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 07:43:06 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:02:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first 
>> post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 
>> 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my 
>> announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to 
>> the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering 
>> along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>>
>> There have been a number of contributors over the years who 
>> have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and 
>> keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a 
>> community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work 
>> on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>>
>> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a 
>> game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first 
>> place.
>>
>> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict 
>> can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still 
>> got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming 
>> along.
>>
>> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
>> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
>> [3] 
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
>> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg
>
> Thanks for that long dedication! Using it since 7 years :)
> I probably wouldn't have stucked with D if it weren't for 
> Derelict, and I know other people who wouldn't have either.

Same here.

It'd just be good for it to stabilize so we can write tutorials 
for it without them getting out of date (yeah, the APIs are the 
same, but Derelict itself keeps changing).