D for Game Development

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/08/2015 11:29 p.m., Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 06/08/15 08:29, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>
>> 5. Cocoa bindings added to Phobos. Not optional.
>>
>> This all needs to happen _before_ we start working on a window library
>> for Phobos.
>> Let alone a GUI.
>>
>> We're mostly got problems with Cocoa. X11 bindings just need to be
>> changed to dynamically bound.
>
> I think now with the new extern(Objective-C) it's a minor issue. Even
> though the whole Objective-C support isn't implemented yet, I think the
> current support is good enough to create bindings which a window library
> can be built upon. We could keep the bindings internal to avoid chancing
> the public API later when better support is implemented.

Yeah. I only mentioned it as a bigger problem then say X11 because we 
already have X11 bindings. They are just statically linked. Not to 
mention old.

Vs Cocoa support which requires a very "young" compiler additions.

But hey, I'm not worried. At the worse case scenario we'll keep to my 
current method of using Objective-C directly and exporting a c API to be 
used instead. So D side is merely a wrapper.


But yes, I like the idea of internal bindings to Cocoa. But given my 
timeline for a window creation library for Phobos is middle of next 
year. Lets just say I'm in no rush.