D for Game Development

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 06:30:06 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> Here is what we need to do going forward (beyond what me and 
> Manu are doing):
>
> 1. Derelict-Util needs to be put into Phobos. This is not 
> optional
> 2. Derelict-GL3 needs to be put into Phobos. Optional, but 
> might be a damn good idea!
> 3. Windows API needs to be moved into either Phobos or 
> druntime. Not optional.
> 4. X11 bindings added to Phobos. Not optional.
> 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.
>
> Windows API bindings if gone into druntime wouldn't need to go 
> through the review cycle luckily. But would need some decent 
> review on e.g. Github.

I really feel like D needs to get over it's "not invented here" 
syndrome, a much easier path would to just use a pre existing 
cross platform windowing library. Its laughable that the people 
in D want to reinvent this stuff. It's been done, just use the 
already working version! Why have all this great c and c++ 
interop if we never use it.

I have the same gripe with how the experimental.image is doing 
image loading/saving, there are plenty of already existing image 
libraries that already support every image format you could ever 
dream of. Just use them, they will work 1000x better than any 
reinvention that we do here.