Progress on Adam Wilson's Graphics API?

[lobo via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 02:14:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:

>
> You're missing a large part of what I'm saying.

I understand what you're saying, I just disagree ;)

I'd argue well tested and maintained dependencies are more 
important than what language they are written in.

> For people just learning the language and getting started, 
> saying go download x for your platform won't be enough. Look at 
> how we are handling curl right now.
> No, for any e.g. library or window creation libraries and 
> likes. Must have an agreed interface that is not specific to 
> e.g. SDL.
> SDL may implement them. But out of the box experience must not 
> rely on 3rd party.

s/bindings/wrapper/

Sorry, I should be more specific, but as I said in my earlier 
post; slap a nice D interface over the top of the C library. In D 
this is trivial.

>
> E.g. such an image library there wouldn't be a JPEG 
> implementation but would be a PNG one. Because of the 
> complexity of implementing a JPEG reader/writer. Which is 
> ridiculously hard compared to PNG which is actually really 
> simple.

Again, I wonder why would you reimplement what you get from 
libpng? Think of all the real world tests, tweaks and 
optimization you're throwing away by not using libpng.

As for libcurl, well if a pure D curl impl is written for Phobos 
it will be 100s to 1000s of additional LOC that require testing 
and maintaining. The effort of that alone would be greater than 
what is currently required from Phobos devs and end-users with a 
'C' dependency.

If dub supported compiling C that would be awesome for my own 
bindings/wrappers.

bye,
lobo