D for Game Development

[karabuta via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 00:05:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> D is really cool and makes a good candidate for developing a 
>> game. Are there any guys out there using D for indie games?
>>
>> For some time I have been seeing some cool game engine being 
>> developed in the DUB repo. What more is happening? I don't see 
>> derelictSDl and derelictSFML activities much. Whatup?
>
> One thing I would really like for D would be an opengl binding 
> in phobos, there was some momentum a while ago to try to get 
> graphics into phobos with Aurora, but literally nothing came of 
> that. People want an all D gui, and graphics support but 
> literally nothing will ever happen until we at least get some 
> basic graphics interfaces like a simple windowing library and 
> some opengl. We are already getting color and images, full on 
> hw supported graphics is the next step.


Yes, +2000 for a D binding to opengl. That will be really cool 
for game development and plain D GUI tookits. I wish efforts were 
made to implement things like these.