Is D production-ready?

ponce via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 16 03:51:10 PDT 2014


On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 10:39:42 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 10:24:46 UTC, John Petal wrote:
>> Does D have a mature SFML or SDL binding?
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-sfml2
> and
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-sdl2
>
> Are available.
>
> I have personally used the SDL2 bindings on both Windows and 
> Mac and they work perfectly so far. Just download the library 
> bindings from libsdl.org and go! For both SFML2 and SDL2, it 
> uses the C interface, so the tutorials using C are the ones 
> you'll want to pay attention to.
>
> In addition, there's GFM: http://code.dlang.org/packages/gfm
>
> It wraps SDL2 in a bit of a nicer interface (I had trouble 
> using gfm as a dependency since ~master references gfm:bgfx 
> which doesn't exist in the dub registry yet ... but gfm:sdl2 
> works when used as the dependency, however, it's somewhat new 
> and incomplete ... could use some contributions, I think)

Ahem, looks like I commited something too early. This is a bug.
In the mean time you can use the "==1.1.1" version.

What are you missing in gfm:sdl2? Please report :)
I recognize for now using the wrapper brings marginal utility.



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