My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 20:25:22 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed post.  I'm an old C/C++ guy (got 
> started with C++ back in the cfront days), and have been 
> kicking the tires on D recently.  The poor state of libraries 
> is something that may push me away from D as well.  In my case, 
> need opencl and crypto libs.  The opencl package in dub is a 
> crude wrapper around the original C API.  I couldn't find any 
> sha lib, so I've started porting a reference sha3 
> implementation from C.
>
> I, like you, may end up jumping off the ship though.  I've done 
> a bit of work with golang before, so maybe I'll take another 
> look at it.  The opencl bindings aren't much better, but there 
> are ready-made sha3 libs I can use instead of porting from C.

For crypto there is also Botan: 
http://code.dlang.org/packages/botan
https://github.com/etcimon/botan

For OpenCL I develop and maintain DCompute:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/dcompute
https://github.com/libmir/dcompute

It has a much beautified interface to OpenCL (and is mostly 
consistent with its CUDA interface). You can also write kernels 
directly in D, however this requires that LDC is built against my 
fork of LLVM: https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm

It's still in dev but should be usable. Please let me know if you 
have issues using it.