Graphics Library for D

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 02:38:21 -0800, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2014-01-06 05:10, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Hello Fellow D Heads,
>>
>> Recently, I've been working to evaluate the feasibility and
>> reasonability of building out a binding to Cinder in D. And while it is
>> certainly feasible to wrap Cinder, that a binding would be necessarily
>> complex and feel very unnatural in D.
>>
>> So after talking it over with Walter and Andrei, we feel that, while we
>> like how Cinder is designed and would very much like to have something
>> like it available in D, wrapping Cinder is not the best approach in the
>> long-term.
>>
>> With that in mind, we would like to start a discussion with interested
>> parties about building a graphics library in the same concept as Cinder,
>> but using an idiomatic D implementation from the ground up. Walter has
>> suggested that we call it Aurora, and given the visual connotations
>> associated with that name, I think it is most appropriate for this  
>> project.
>>
>> [SNIP]
>> So with the above framework in mind, let's talk!
>
> I like it :).
>
> Every time I read a proposal that has anything to do with graphics I  
> always start to think there will be problems on Mac OS X. Depending on  
> how much interaction with the platform is needed, it always comes back  
> to the same problem: interfacing with Objective-C. It's verbose,  
> cumbersome and annoying to interface with Objective-C without language  
> support. We badly need D/Objective-C [1].
>
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43

That's why I want to keep the dependencies limited and low-level, if we  
only use OpenGL on OSX when can get away with a C interface.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator