Objective-C D metal binding

[ryuukk_]

On Friday, 10 March 2023 at 21:14:38 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
> On Friday, 10 March 2023 at 21:10:50 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> Congrats!
>>
>> But metal obj-c? do you mean DMD support only? so no Apple 
>> Silicon (intel only)?
>>
>> I don't think Intel stuff on mac ecosystem will be a thing for 
>> too long, PPC era already vanished from history
>>
>> There is the official C++ headers that you can use to make 
>> things easier
>>
>> https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
>
> As said in the post above, I do intend to get 
> `extern(Objective-C)` into LDC even if I have to do it myself. 
> Which is also why I'm looking if someone could help Martin get 
> this on LDC. Binding to the main API is better than the 
> secondary one, and this is an advantage that D has over other 
> languages. This is not only about Silicon, it is also about 
> getting iOS. iOS market share is as big as Android and any game 
> developer would be interested in entering in this market.

That's exactly what i'm saying, Intel is dead on that platform, 
it's only just ARM, therefore this metal-cpp comes handy