Looking for a language to hang my hat on.

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 00:33:44 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> This might change, but that's a gamble, and not one I'd take. 
> For projects where you need specific libraries to exist 
> already, D probably won't serve your needs. (It's definitely 
> easier with C++ interop, but you'd still have to write 
> bindings. htod doesn't exactly work on Linux.)

Does anyone still use htod? I thought dstep was the tool being 
used to generate bindings.

It depends on what OP plans to do. C interop is generally very 
easy, so anything available in C is also available in D, but it 
depends on how much of the glue code needs to be written. It has 
never been a big deal for me. The bigger problem is figuring out 
what the C library does than how to interface with it.

One additional thing I've learned is that other languages might 
have large numbers of libraries "available" but a lot of it is 
low quality, undocumented/poorly documented stuff. The ability to 
easily write C bindings is in many cases preferable to 
complicated C interop but existing libraries.