D for Game Development

[lobo via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 22:48:50 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:

> 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.

+1

If only the effort writing "native-D" reinvented unproven, 
untested wheels was spent writing quality D wrappers over 
existing proven and tested libraries....


bye,
lobo